The Washington Post, May 24th, 1998
WALK ON WATER A Memoir By Lorian Hemingway Simon and Schuster. 250 pp. $23 Fishing is Lorian Hemingway's religion, her salvation, her redemption, and she tells the reader as much in the first paragraph of Walk on Water: "I take fish personally, the way I have my life, like a sacrament. This is my body. Eat of it. This is my blood. Drink. I imagine this reverence is what they want of me." Long before she had any notion of her grandfather's legacy (yes, that Hemingway), fishing was her life, the outdoors more parent to her than her alcoholic mother, water more home than walls and a ceiling. The ...
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