All Worldly Pursuits
a novel in nine stories
by Hillel Wright

With luminous and articulate writing Wright tells the story of Wiley Moon ... He has a lust for life and a passion that involves the reader in his story. (W.P. Kinsella, Books in Canada). Readers with a taste for nautical fiction will find much to enjoy ... The salt all but sprays from the page. (Peter O'Connor, The Daily Yomiuri Tokyo). Wiley embodies the spirit of a by-gone psychedelic era." (Fisherman Life Magazine Vancouver)

about the author

Hillel Wright was born and raised in the USA, lived for 25 years on the West Coast islands of Canada and currently lives in Japan. He has worked as a commercial fisherman, college teacher, treeplanter, literary publisher, columnist, artist's model, and now as free-lance lecturer, editor, language consultant, writer and rewriter in Greater Tokyo. Hillel has also written All Worldly Pursuits, a novel in nine stories, and he  edited Faces in the Crowds, the anthology of expatriate writing in Japan. More stories of Wright's stories will be found in Rotary Sushi. As this webpage is being written, Hillel Wright is currently at work on his next novel.

review by John Gribble

All Worldly Pursuits, the first novel of Canadian poet and fiction writer Hillel Wright, is a kaleidoscopic and picaresque affair. It touches on a wild assortment of lifestyles and social milieus from the last thirty-five years, ranging from classic Beat On The Road-type adventures through AIM politics to, improbably, the life of a teacher at a Japanese university. The best-realized sections are those dealing with commercial fishing on Canada's west coast. The portrayal here is dead-on authentic.