“It’s hard to imagine a more heartfelt book, or one more lovingly rendered.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“A charming and idiosyncratic collection … heartwarming but unsentimental tours of the urban angling scene … If you have any affinity for the outdoors and fishing, or just enjoy terrific writing, read this splendid book.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Witty, insightful … This gem belongs in waterproof pockets and urban backpacks.”
—New York Post
“A great read … [He] is a kindred spirit whose writing has the warmth and humbleness of an old friend.”
—Big Sky Journal
“It’s enough to say you will inhale Ian Frazier’s readable and witty The Fish’s Eye … . This isn’t a book about fish but about dreams.”
—The Seattle Times
“A wonderful little volume … [Frazier] hooks his reader immediately and, with his blend of reportage and humor, reels us right in.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Genuine power and engaging breeziness of manner … Frazier can be wonderfully precise.”
—The American Scholar
“Whether on a paved shore in Harlem or, naturally, Montana’s Yellowstone River, Frazier writes with the unpretentious lyricism and comedy that is the hallmark of all his work.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Hilariously dry … There is refreshingly little hallowed ground here. Just the richness of the angling landscape, wherever Frazier finds it.”
—Esquire
“Frazier’s collected pieces play against the expectations and limitations of fishing literature in the same way that his marvelous books on America (e.g., On the Rez, Great Plains) have stretched the form of travel writing.”
—Library Journal
“His paeans to the angling experience set the standard in this subgenre, yet will amuse many who’ve never set foot in a tackle shop.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Hemingway, you have company on my top shelf.”
—Business Week