Fup: A Modern Fable - Softcover

Dodge, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841952591 ISBN 13: 9781841952598

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2002

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Fup is a pint-sized powerpack of a novel. It's got everything. * * Big Issue * * There is a moment of real horror and loss, and then a quite beautiful resolution. The story twists and turns between Twain and Steinbeck but has a fairytale ending worthy of Oscar Wilde. By the way, Fup is the name of the duck, and apart from anything elde, this book is very funny. * * Sunday Telegraph * * Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth. The illustrations, by Harry Horse, complement it superbly. * * Daily Telegraph * * Fup will have you grinning from ear to ear. * * The List * *

Reseña del editor:

Fup is a tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky. There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household. Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.

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• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1841952591
• ISBN 13: 9781841952598
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96