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American BeheMouth [Kindle Edition]

Jason Covington
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Book Description

“American BeheMouth” is a timely literary work that depicts American moral equivalencies and excesses. For fishermen, baseball fans, book lovers, sports enthusiasts, and economists alike, the book is highly entertaining and insightful.

Full of true fisheries science and sports history, “American BeheMouth” tells the greatest bass fishing story of all time while giving an insight into what America has become. The book provides the algorithm that can be used for growing a fish of record proportions.

On the surface, the story is about a literature student and his fisheries biologist girlfriend who raise the world-record bigmouth bass in a Kentucky lake. Underneath, it is much more than a fishing story; it is a metaphor for many other things: life, family, sacrifice, commitment, and dreams. In addition, it raises ethical questions about modern American sports, American businesses and consumerism, and our quest for the elusive.

“American BeheMouth” is a metaphor for many things that are wrong in American culture, including the relentless pursuit for more, mirroring and predicting the many bubbles in the American economy.

In the big picture, the author may be asking all the existential questions while writing about fishing. In all, everyone can glean something from the story with humor and inquisitiveness.


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About the Author

Jason Covington studied creative writing at Pepperdine University and later earned a Master’s degree in literature from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. There he wrote a Master’s thesis on “Fishing in America: Hemingway, Maclean and Duncan,” and is clearly influenced by the work of University of Chicago Professor Norman Maclean. A university instructor himself, Covington has taught writing at eight colleges and universities since 1993. Traveling and fishing all over America, he learned the love for bass fishing at an early age. He brings the sport to life with stories from his own life as well as the dreamlike narrative of his alter ego in his first novella on the subject.

Product Details

  • File Size: 178 KB
  • Print Length: 160 pages
  • Publisher: DocDeliverables (April 5, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007S1XVE6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,066 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An especially great read for fishing enthusiasts! April 9, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
American BeheMouth is "the" story for those in search of landing the BIG one. Along the way, you'll find yourself drawn into issues of the day that cause you to question some of your own values, as well as be reminded of a few life lessons couched in metaphor. An especially great read for every fishing enthusiast.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars fun read and relevant April 7, 2012
By ngovea
Format:Kindle Edition
I found the novel to be an accurate depiction of modern American family issues. It was a fun read as well as relevant in showing some real issues in how we are always trying to reach for more, like the bigmouth goggling up all those trout. P.S. I want to go and find that lake in Kentucky!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well thought out book... would recommend April 16, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
This author is very thorough with chronicles of his pursuit of the behemouth largemouth bass. A short note here this is not your average bassing fundamentals book that you see enough of. This book stands above the rest in terms of putting a human quality towards the writing and attention to details that the author wants you to visualize as you further finish each chapter.

Though it lacks whimsical illustrations like a classic leatherbound book, it is a good read.
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More About the Author

Jason Covington studied creative writing at Pepperdine University and later earned a Master's degree in literature from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. There he wrote a Master's thesis on "Fishing in America: Hemingway, Maclean and Duncan," and is clearly influenced by the work of University of Chicago Professor Norman Maclean.

A university instructor himself, Covington has taught writing at eight colleges and universities since 1993. Traveling and fishing all over America, he learned the love for bass fishing at an early age. He brings the sport to life with stories from his own life as well as the dreamlike narrative of his alter ego in his first novella on the subject, "American BeheMouth."

http://www.behemouth.com

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