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Blood Line: Stories of Fathers & Sons
Blood Line explores the complicated liaisons between fathers and sons. Though using traditional masculine backdrops, the three stories in the collection go beyond a portrayal of physical and emotional endurance to evoke the blending of guilt, rebellion, patricide, and the transcending power of kinship that allow both father and son to place themselves in relationship to ea...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
August 28th 2000
by Johnson Books
(first published 1987)
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Walking out is one of the most beautiful father/son stories I've ever read. In thinking about it now it reminds me of the relationship between the father and son in McCarthy's The Road.
This is a wonderful collection of short writings from a peerless writer. The story "Walking Out" is one of the finest short stories about a father and son written.
David Quammen has garnered great respect as a writer of natural and scientific non-fiction. His talents clearly manifested early in his fictional and shorter writings.
David Quammen has garnered great respect as a writer of natural and scientific non-fiction. His talents clearly manifested early in his fictional and shorter writings.
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David Quammen (born February 1948) is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Outside, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review; he has also written fiction. He wrote a column called "Natural Acts" for Outside magazine for fifteen years. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana.
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