ISBN: 0-88739-188-5
294 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Bottom Feeder
Mark Spitzer
Six miles into Phantom Loon Lake, Ontario, a swell can sometimes be seen rising at dusk. The swell is Old Shithead, the last known surviving copper lake catfish on the planet, a creature of unmentionable proportions. For centuries, the legend of this lunkercat has grown larger than the mythic Big One itself.
Bottom Feeder, though, is the myth of a modern cast of wacky characters who all have different fish stories about Old Shithead-and so, in an eco-guerilla, monkey-wrenching kind of way, these pour souls battle for the preservation of the catfish.
Review: "Welcome to the zipping, zinging, adrenalized world of Mark Spitzer. A world rendered in the bold colors of a fauve painting, and a world of spark and verve and 'emagination,' of Grizzly professors and cig-shaking codgers and giant catfish, characters who dance through this great whale of a fish story, making us think while they make us laugh."
- David Gessner, author A Wild, Rank Place
and Under the Devil's Thumb
"At once comedic and strangely melancholy, Bottom Feeder is a quintessentially American book. Spitzer is a young writer to watch: he is coming on strong, and there is no stopping him."
- Luis Alberto Urrea, author Nobody's Son and Across the Wire
Bio: Mark Spitzer grew up fishing on the shores of the Mississippi River. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota and his MA from the University of Colorado. He now lives in Louisiana, a writer, editor, and certified eccentric.
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