An archetypal “bum” named for this type of animal titles a cult classic essay collection by John Gierach (“GEER-ack”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of animal that titles a vignette-laden novella by Richard Brautigan set partly in San Francisco. A character named for this type of animal inspires the car salesman Dwayne Hoover to go on a violent rampage.
ANSWER: trout [accept Kilgore Trout; accept Trout Fishing in America; prompt on fishes] (The last sentence is from Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.)
[10h] This book’s narrator describes fishing for trout with his brother Paul in western Montana. The line “in our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing” opens this collection by Norman Maclean.
ANSWER: A River Runs Through It
[10e] Nick Adams methodically catches a trout over the course of this author’s story “Big Two-Hearted River.” This author also created the elderly fisherman Santiago, who struggles to catch a marlin.
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway (The latter work is The Old Man and the Sea.)
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