Isbn: 9781770416345 - fishing with tardelli: a memoir of family in time lost (5 risultati)

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Paperback. pp. 151. 8vo. Faint shelfwear; very good+.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. INSCRIPTION FROM NEIL BESNER on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very slight wear to upper front edge of cover; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Returning over and again to the simple joy of boyhood days spent catching bluefish with handline in the bay outside of Rio, Besner leads us through scenes from his two homes, Canada and Brazil, in a search for meaning and connection. In this memoir, Besner navigates the rivers and tributaries of what can and what cannot be said in his attempt to recover time and fathom and unknowable - of family, of growing up, of the strangeness of the world. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. y ADVANCE READING COPY. 151 p. From the back: Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner's internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated. Beginning with an older man's recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-'40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-'50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late '60s and early '70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.…