Big Fish

Name: Big Fish
ISBN: 9780743484251

Wallace, Daniel

2012·196 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

dreamy magical realism

“Refreshing , original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale”
— Publishers Weekly , starred review

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

“Both comic and poignant”
— New York Times

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.

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Big Fish

Wallace, Daniel

Year

2012

Pages

196

Fantasy Literary Fiction

Praise

“Refreshing , original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale”
— Publishers Weekly , starred review

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