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Big Fish

Autor Daniel Wallace
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2017
** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange **
** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer **


Do you ever really know your father? 

Like many sons, William Bloom never really knew his father. Edward told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But now Edward is dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. 

So William sets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams. Through legends and myths, William makes Edward into a true Big Fish. 

The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. 

Praise for Big Fish:


'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in Big Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump

'Both comic and poignantNew York Times

'An audacious, highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son’s love for a charming, unknowable father' Kirkus Reviews

'Refreshing, original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy talePublishers Weekly, starred review
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781471173028
ISBN-10: 147117302X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Descriere

'A charming whopper of a tale' San Diego Union-Tribune

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"A charming whopper of a tale." --The San Diego Union-Tribune

In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. Animals loved him, people loved him, women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. At least that's what he told his son, William. But now Edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth about his elusive father--this indefatigable teller of tall tales--before it's too late. So, using the few facts he knows, William re-creates Edward's life in a series of legends and myths, through which he begins to understand his father's great feats, and his great failings. The result is hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous.
"Refreshing, original . . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A comic novel about death, about the mysteries of parents and the redemptive power of storytelling." --USA Today

"Highly original . . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son's love for a charming, unknowable father." --Kirkus Reviews



Cuprins

Part I The Day He Was Born
In Which He Speaks to Animals
The Year it Snowed in Alabama
His Great Promise
My Father's Death: Take 1
The Girl in the River
His Quiet Charm
How He Tamed the Giant
In Which He Goes Fishing
The Day He Left Ashland
Entering a New World
Part II
The Old Lady and the Eye
My Father's Death: Take 2
His First Great Love
His Legendary Legs
In Which He Makes a Move
The Fight
On Meeting the In-Laws
His Three Labors
He Goes to War
My Father's Death: Take 3
The Day I Was Born
How He Saw Me
How He Saved My Life
His Immortality
His Greatest Power
In Which He Has a Dream
Part III
In Which He Buys a Town, and More
How it Ends
My Father's Death: Take 4
Big Fish