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Big fish : a novel of mythic proportions
Published 2003. by Penguin Books, New York, N.Y.
ISBN 9780142004272
Bib Id 732423
Description 180, 9 p. ; 20 cm.
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cam a22 Ia 4500
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53-381477
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0142004278 (pbk.) : $12.00
9780142004272
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FIC Wallace
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Title
Big fish : a novel of mythic proportions
Description
180, 9 p. ; 20 cm.
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Includes "A Penguin readers guide to Big Fish", 9 p. at end.
Contents
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 -- The Old Lady and the Eye -- My Father's Death: Take 2 -- His First Great Love -- His Legendary Legs -- In Which He Makes His 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 -- In Which He Buys a Town, and More -- How It Ends -- My Father's Death: Take 4 -- Big Fish.
Summary
He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes -- or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -- hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous -- William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats, and his great failings. Book jacket.
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