The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son

Fred Waitzkin's moving account of fatherhood is still imprinted on the minds of those who read the book or watched the film Searching for Bobby Fischer. Now he reaches back to his own childhood to write a sweeping family saga of love & betrayal. Fred's father Abe is a brilliantly talented salesman, a sickly man whose relentless will drives him to succeed. He marries an eccentric abstract artist & thereby forges an alliance with her wealthy father. The marriage founders, & Fred's world is threatened by his mother's need to realize herself as an artist, by his father's declining health, by duplicity, & by revenge. In order to keep head above water while family & fortune threaten to go down around him, Fred fishes. In scenes that range from Great Neck, Long Island, to the boats of drug smugglers on Bimini to the marlin-rich waters of the Gulf Stream, he sinks boats & battles thousand-pounders, believing that fishing is the answer to almost all problems. Armchair adventurers, nature lovers, & students of the human heart will not fail to be hooked by The Last Marlin.Waitzkin, Fred is the author of 'The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son' with ISBN 9780670882618 and ISBN 0670882615.