

The choice is fishing.Īfter few years Abe is joined on his trips by his colleague from work Dan - a man who also lost family in a terrible accident.

Trying to deal with his pain, The Fisherman’s protagonist decides to take up a new hobby, which might distract him from his sorrow. At the very beginning of the novel, Abe, the narrator, whose wife died of cancer, states that other people’s compassion quickly fades away and sooner or later you are left alone with your pain. One of the main topics discussed in John Langan’s The Fisherman is pain associated with the loss of our closest ones. The Fisherman - the story of overcoming grief The Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast, Albert Bierstadt, 1870.
