Bibliograph

Trash fish, a life, by Greg Keeler

Type

Label

Trash fish, a life, by Greg Keeler

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Trash fish

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

647827821

Responsibility statement

by Greg Keeler

Sub title

a life

Summary

Trash Fish is the story of a boy who gives himself over to his obsession with fish as an escape from the trials of growing up. Time and again, as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him, he returns to the fish, which cast him a lifeline of their own. Laugh-out-loud funny yet sardonically raw to the bone, Keeler tells a whole whirlpool of a storythe women, the Peace Corps, the teaching jobs, the marriage and children, and, of course, the rod and reel. Eventually, however, his serene fishing life becomes contaminated with real-world influences: a polite society o

Table Of Contents

Long Lake; Fish Currency; Roadkill Bonanza; Grandma, Chickens, Cats and Guts; Greg and Grandma Noir; Gut Bucket Reminiscences; Watermelon, Popcorn and a Two-Dimensional Possum; Peleg Goes Fishing; A Two-Lane Dream; Our Lady of Jackass Flats; What's on the Bottom; Family Relations and Child Development; Whatever Works; God's Country; Balloons of Questionable Meat; Thirty-Five Steps to Arriving at Sheer Horror on Lake Tenkiller; An Iraqi's Lackey; An Ignorant Island; Egor, Lothar and Renfield; Hurty, Hurty; Lee Harvey Keeler; Kept Fish; Sex, Freud and Fishing PolesNot Exactly an Abba Dabba HoneymoonA Rowboat on the Bosporus; Black Sea Perch Dtente; The Acrep Has Bitten; Good Kids; What's in a Name?; I Like to Walk; Frogs in Wheelchairs; A Little Doll; A Mail-Order Daughter; Sunfish; Sportsman's Fucking Paradise; News from the Queen of Dondore; An Astonishing Horizon; Awarded the Court; Strictly Academic; A Gerbil Runs Through It; A Fishin' Family; Dr. Judy and Greg; How Low Can You Go?; Stink Meat; Is He Fishing?; On a Lighter

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