Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

by WALLACE (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.36

  When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.50

  ** 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:
  
  'Both comic and poignant' New 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 tale' Publishers Weekly, starred review