One legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly rare--attracts trout of such size that they couldn\'t possibly exist in the world as we know it.
Or does it?.
Richly imaginative and sensual, the world of The Snowfly has more mystery lurking beneath the surface waters than our own.
His hunt for the manuscript, meanwhile, takes him deep into his own heart of darkness.
Rhodes\'s reporting brings him to such sites as the jungles of Vietnam, the labyrinth of Brezhnev\'s Soviet Union, and a poisoned Canadian wasteland of uranium mines.
The Snowfly is the sacred quest of the most obsessed trout hunters, existing--it seems--only in myth and in a lost manuscript.
It hatches every seven to ten years, never on the same river twice, bringing to rise trout so huge they would have to have lived forty years or more; trout so wily that they never allow themselves to be caught--or even seen; trout so hungry for this fly that they will risk exposure to rise for the hatch.
Protagonist Bowie Rhodes, UPI reporter and expert fly fisherman, had learned of the Snowfly early in his childhood.
But in Heywood\'s classic novel, such things can and do exist.
One legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly rare--attracts trout of such size that they couldn\'t possibly exist in the world as we know it
