Big Fish

by Daniel Wallace (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.28

  ** 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

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $4.04

  A startlingly original, eccentric debut novel about fathers, sons, and ways of dying, soon to be a major Tim Burton movie starring Ewan MacGregor. Throughout William's childhood, his much-absent father, Edward, regaled him with tall tales of his exploits as a young man. But now that his father is dying, William must get to know the real Edward Bloom, before it's all too late. Inspired by the fragments of stories he's gathered over the years, William recreates his father's life in a series of legends and myths, through which he begins to understand Edward Bloom's great feats - and great failings - at last finding a way to say goodbye.