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All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar

Linda Greenlaw

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Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Rank: 5759
The genesis of this lively collection of "absolutely true sea stories" is Greenlaw's (Lobster Chronicles) remembrance of an afternoon and evening spent with her crusty old friend Alden in a bar in Portland, Maine, trading tales about fishing and adventures at sea. Greenlaw, who makes her living as a commercial fisher, includes among the stories an account of how she nearly lost a boatload of 500 lobster traps the day she ignored the weatherman's storm warnings; the saga of being adrift at sea on a disabled fishing boat with a captain who was too cheap to pay for a tow; and a yarn about her chance meeting with a legendary dope-smuggling captain on the lam in the Caribbean.

She also tells other people's stories, such as one about a fisherman who was forced to abandon his ship and managed to survive a night in the water during a hurricane.

Alden chimes in with memories of the worst storm of his 40 years of commercial fishing. Two barflies join them.

One tells of the young captain of a sightseeing vessel who almost lost the boat and 150 passengers during a storm, and the other contributes a whopper about landing a 200-pound tuna using rock-and-roll music as the lure. The stories are separated by short anecdotes about fishermen; Greenlaw calls these "bar snacks." At the end of the night, a woman of dubious character known as "the Madam" joins the group and declares, "All fishermen are liars." Greenlaw leaves it up to the reader to decide how much is truth and how much is exaggeration.

Either way, the stories are all very entertaining.
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About the Author

Linda Greenlaw has been a deep-sea fisherman for 18 years, becoming the first and only female swordfish captain in the Grand Banks Fleet.

She was raised in Maine and graduated from Colby College. Greenlaw now lives on Isle au Haut, Maine, where she captains a lobster boat.

The New England Booksellers Association selected Linda as the winner of the 2004 New England Book Award. The purpose of the award is to honor an author whose body of work stands as a contribution to New England.

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Editorials

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All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
Linda Greenlaw
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Whether or not they're liars, all fishermen do tell stories. In her third memoir, this real-life fisherman weaves dozens of tales into a narrative held together by an afternoon in a waterfront bar. The author reads her... read full editorial
 Rocky Mountain News
". . . [Greenlaw's] self-effacing honesty, if you can believe a fisherman, is endearing, amusing, excruciating and awe-inspiring."
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In ALL FISHERMEN ARE LIARS, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Drydock in Portland just before Christmas. The surly captain of her first fishing... read full editorial



Customer Reviews

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All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
Linda Greenlaw
 A Great Storyteller
(Elkhorn, WI United States) September 8, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
Linda Greenlaw rocks! Her books are absolutely wonderful. I read about them in a review in Down East Magazine and purchased all three from Amazon. I started with The Hungry Ocean, next was Lobster Chronicles and finished... read full review
 Hey, Linda, let's go for a drink.
(Brooklyn , NY) February 23, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
At the beginning of this, her third and latest book, author Greenlaw says, "I could only hope that there might be someone who was interested in hearing more from me. I was full of apprehension and fear that...I had caught... read full review
 obvious knack for storytelling
(Atlanta, Georgia USA) September 5, 2004 - 4.0/5 stars
Greenlaw knows how to tell a story. Her blend of creative non-fiction, told from the fishing piers and bars of Maine is a refreshing read.



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