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"Bluefish," writes the author, are "animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can't not eat." Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.
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"I'm re-reading this, read it originally probably 10-15 years ago......fishing, poetry, biology, recipes...what else is there? A great read, so entertaining and infromative. Loved it AGAIN. "
— doug (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Almost no one has answered ‘why fish?’ better than Mr. Hersey…what he does best of all is evoke wonder.”
— New York Times Book Review -
“Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about interconnections—the ties between mankind and the natural world, among others.”
— New Yorker -
“Wonderful…He gives us a rich and vivid sense of ocean life…The whole thing is as stately as a minuet, and as graceful.”
— Chicago Sun-Times -
“Blues informs and enlightens in the grand tradition of open-air, ‘universe-in-a-grain-of-sand’ writing…Part philosophy, part natural history, part cookbook, part fishing lore, this is a book as singular as its author and his distinguished career.”
— Baltimore Sun
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A New York Times bestseller
Blues Listener Reviews
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" Possibly my favorite book of all time. "
— Dooley, 10/5/2013 -
" This is a hard book to rate. It is a treatise on fish and marine ecosystems, done in the style of a Plato type "conversation". It is loaded with facts about fish and fishing and includes recipes for cooking fish and poetry about fish. "
— Carol, 4/22/2013 -
" Fantastic little life lessons. I also liked the chapter ending recipe. "
— Mike, 6/22/2012 -
" A professional author and novice fisherman learns to fish, and at the same time the habits of the voracious schooling bluefish off of the New England coast. Each chapter begins with a recipe for bluefish. "
— Patrick, 4/16/2012 -
" hey! the description for this book is way way way way off! This is not a book about blues, it's a book about blue fish! "
— Alex, 1/11/2011 -
" Somewhat slow and pedantic at times, but the immersion in the essence of fishing and the naturalism and conservation of the unique species called the bluefish makes for a good read. "
— Frank, 8/12/2009 -
" Possibly my favorite book of all time. "
— Dooley, 3/1/2009 -
" Fantastic little life lessons. I also liked the chapter ending recipe. "
— Mike, 7/12/2008 -
" hey! the description for this book is way way way way off! This is not a book about blues, it's a book about blue fish! "
— Alex, 6/12/2008 -
" Somewhat slow and pedantic at times, but the immersion in the essence of fishing and the naturalism and conservation of the unique species called the bluefish makes for a good read. "
— Frank, 8/22/2007 -
" A professional author and novice fisherman learns to fish, and at the same time the habits of the voracious schooling bluefish off of the New England coast. Each chapter begins with a recipe for bluefish. "
— Patrick, 8/2/2007
About John Hersey
John Hersey (1914–1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano. Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima. According to the New Yorker, “[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting.”
About Norman Dietz
Norman Dietz is a writer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. He has won numerous Earphones Awards and was named one of the fifty “Best Voices of the Century” by AudioFile magazine. He and his late wife, Sandra, transformed an abandoned ice-cream parlor into a playhouse, which served “the world’s best hot fudge sundaes” before and after performances. The founder of Theatre in the Works, he lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.