Lou Ureneck's Backcast wins the National Outdoor Book Award

Outdoor Literature Category
Winner. Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska. By Lou Ureneck. St. Martins Press, New York. ISBN 9780312371517.

Backcast plays out like the long and splendid arc of a fly line, unfurling on an Alaskan river trip that Lou Ureneck has arranged to re-connect with his son. As the trip progresses, Ureneck reflects back on his own life while adroitly capturing the sometimes hilarious and sometimes serious interactions between himself and his son. The result is a realistic and heartwarming story of a father and his son -- and a work of outdoor literature of the highest order.

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