The Last Marlin

Name: The Last Marlin
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Fred Waitzkin
ISBN: 9781441784858

Author: Fred Waitzkin

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/22/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

The Last Marlin is an unforgettable memoir of growing up in the 1950s. Young Fred is a Jewish boy stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Freds father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed, whatever the cost. He marries Stella, an abstract artist, the student of de Kooning and Hans Hofmann, but also the daughter of a wealthy industrialist with whom Abe forges an alliance. Scenes range from Long Island synagogues to smoky nights with legendary painters to the boats of drug smugglers in Bimini and the marlinrich waters of the Gulf Stream, where young Fred believes fishing is the answer to all problems.

About Fred Waitzkin

Fred Waitzkin was born in Massachusetts in 1943 and graduated from Kenyon College. He has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Motorboating and Sailing. He lives in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard and fishes regularly in the Bahamas.
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Fred Waitzkin is the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer and Mortal Games. He has written for Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Motorboating and Sailing. He lives in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard and fishes regularly in the Bahamas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on April 16, 2015

As someone who grew up in Florida, cruising across to the Bahamas and big game fishing, this book brings back so many memories. The author describes in vibrant and colorful ways, the sounds and the sights of bill fishing. Yes, it was a man's time. As a female sportfisherman, I could take offense to......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 23, 2010

This is another book I read in preparation for a vacation to Bimini, the Bahamas. North Bimini has become somewhat more commercial since The Last Marlin was written, but South Bimini, where we stayed, remains much the same. Bimini has fantastically clear waters and is still known for its sport fishi......more

Goodreads review by Jules Hernandez on August 10, 2008

Interesting but often left me feeling sad.......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on March 27, 2008

I read this because I wanted insight in to his mother Stella Waitzkin's life. Stella was a NY artist.......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on March 25, 2013

I love memoirs. This one is good and has some interesting history.......more