The Trout : A Novel (Hardcover)

from Fergus_Cooper

A great book. It is very well structured. Simple in its style, profound in its message. If you get a chance ....read it. My copy was bought by myself & my views are my own.

from Beamis12

4+ A quiet but meaningful story about a past that haunts, affecting the present. Alex Smyth, now living in Ontario, Canada has written a book detailing the relationship between he and his father, a man he has not spoken to in many years. A blank sheet of paper is delivered in an envelope, but wha...

from refice

The Trout is a moving story about an Irishman, Alex Smyth, living in Canada for the past 40 years. The book's name derives from the analogies drawn between trout behavior and human behavior. It is a quick read with lyrical prose. On the whole I liked it, although I thought events were perhaps a l...

from hubblegal

Alex Smyth is living in Canada with his wife when he receives a strange piece of mail containing only a trout fly. Alex has always thought that something terrible had happened when he was a child but the memory is always just a bit past his grasp. Memories now start coming back and he starts to b...

from hubblegal

Alex Smyth is living in Canada with his wife when he receives a strange piece of mail containing only a trout fly. Alex has always thought that something terrible had happened when he was a child but the memory is always just a bit past his grasp. Memories now start coming back and he starts to b...