Hillel Wright's first novel is a storm-driven journey through the psychedelic hippie era into dangerous and turbulent seas, both real and metaphorical. Through the adventures of characters in search of permanence which they cannot find and which might very well not exist, we meet members of the American Indian Movement, lovers both sacred and profane, and a fisherman who is married to the sea and quite likely mad.
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Hillel Wright is author of two books of poetry published in Canada, "Single Dad" (1991) and "Welcome to the Below Tide Motel" (1993), and co-editor of "Poesie Yaponesia: a bilingual anthology" published in Tokyo in 2000. He worked as a commercial fisherman in Hawaii, California and British Columbia between 1969 and 1992, fishing for salmon, tuna and cod. From 1987-1997 he was publisher/editor of "MiNUS TiDES! Magazine," an international literary review published from Vancouver Island, Canada. He currently lives in Japan with his wife Shiori Tsuchiya and teaches at Japanese Universities.
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Beat Fishing,
By John Gribble (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All Worldly Pursuits (Paperback)
All Worldly Pursuits, the first novel of Canadian poet and fiction writer Hillel Wright, is a kaleidoscopic and picaresque affair. It touches on a wild assortment of lifestyles and social milieus from the last thirty-five years, ranging from classic Beat On The Road-type adventures through AIM politics to, improbably, the life of a teacher at a Japanese university. The best-realized sections are those dealing with commercial fishing on Canada's west coast. The portrayal here is dead-on authentic.
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Wiley's Back!,
By David Rahn (Vancouver, B.C.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All Worldly Pursuits (Paperback)
Readers familiar with Wright's fictional character, Wiley Moon, the subject of several short stories published in the fishing press and elsewhere, will be delighted to find him back again in this full-length adventure. In All Worldly Pursuits, Wiley is inspired by the wanderlust of his ancestors in the Ukraine to begin a quest that takes him around the Pacific, from B.C. to Japan. In this storm-tossed journey, filled with characters from slightly outside this world, Wiley embodies the spirit of a by-gone psychedelic era as he searches for the stability and permanence that always seems to elude him. Filled with fishing action set here and abroad.This is Hillel Wright's first novel, and the book itself reads like a rough, boisterous first-timer with its slightly old fashioned, double-spaced typeface - all togther a good fit!
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