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Fiskadoro

Fiskadoro

by Denis Johnson (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $11.49

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    Paperback 1986

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' New York Times The nuclear holocaust has been and gone, and now everything is different. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in radioactive artefacts. Boats go out to comb the sea for fish, and the sea keeps some of the men. Tossing fitfully in nightmares of forgotten wars, lazing in the tropical heat, the flotsam and jetsam of a lost civilization pursue their lives through a world of fractured memories. And they wait - for the Cubans to come, for the Quarantine to be lifted, for the god Quetzalcoatl, the god Bob Marley, the god Jesus to return and build their kingdoms. From the author of Tree of Smoke, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0099440849
ISBN 13: 9780099440840
Book Overview: 'A marvellous book, beautifully written and constantly entertaining-. He is a wonderful storyteller' Washington Post

Media Reviews
Wildly ambitious. . . Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling * New York Times *
A leap of the imagination. . . stunningly delivered * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
Haunting. . .an eerie and powerful visionary novel * Boston Globe *
Author Bio
Denis Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, five collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. Among other honours, his novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, and Train Dreams was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.