A tale of human love, "The All of It" begins with Father Declan de Laughry on a salmon fishing beat, the worst on its river, and goes through a cruel day of rain during which the weather goes from bad to godawful. The sense of the fishing doneis so full and so accurate that anyonce, fisherman or not, will relish it. This is a book that is exceptionally difficult to locate in the original Godine hardcover edition.