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All Worldly Pursuits

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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.

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!