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Title
Big fish
Big fish
Author
Daniel Wallace
Daniel Wallace
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Simon & Schuster UK
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20171109
20171109
Description
** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange **
** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starringKelsey Grammer **
Do you ever really know your father?
Like many sons,William Bloomnever really knew his father.Edwardtold 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 nowEdwardis dying, suddenly it matters a great deal.
So Williamsets 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,WilliammakesEdwardinto a trueBig Fish.
The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London.
Praise forBig Fish:
'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel inBig Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
'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
** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starringKelsey Grammer **
Do you ever really know your father?
Like many sons,William Bloomnever really knew his father.Edwardtold 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 nowEdwardis dying, suddenly it matters a great deal.
So Williamsets 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,WilliammakesEdwardinto a trueBig Fish.
The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London.
Praise forBig Fish:
'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel inBig Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
'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
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