Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
by Torday, Paul
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151012768
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012763
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Synopsis
Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning to glorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel; interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, and interview transcripts that deftly capture the absurdity of bureaucratic dysfunction. With a wickedly wonderful cast of charactersincluding a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldier and his intrepid fiancée, and Dr. Jones’s own devilish wifeSalmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5443504-75
- Title
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Author
- Torday, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151012768
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012763
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Ny Usa
- This edition first published
- April 2, 2007
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