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Fup: A Modern Fable (Canons)
Jim Dodge
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Description for Fup: A Modern Fable (Canons)
Paperback. Fup is a tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky Series: Canons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 104.
There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household. Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Canons
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116356
SKU
V9781782116356
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Jim Dodge
Jim Dodge is the author of three novels - Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction - and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lived for many years on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years, a woodcutter and an environmental restorer.
Reviews for Fup: A Modern Fable (Canons)
I was a wilderness educator back in Texas in the mid-eighties . . . At night I used to read these tough, streetwise kids to sleep - Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, and a fable called Fup by Jim Dodge. They loved Fup in particular, a fable about a duck . . . I still hear from these kids - they're all over the country now and generally they're out of trouble, except for the fact that they might be reading Fup to their kids
Colum McCann
Paris Review
A fairytale ending worthy of Oscar Wilde
Sunday Telegraph
You'll love it
Independent on Sunday
Short, sharp and wickedly funny
Elle
Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth.
Daily Telegraph
A short, masterful and unusual fable.
The Times
This novel is fupped uck.
The Times
Stupendous. It is a jewel, a gem, a diamond in the cesspool of life.
San Francisco Chronicle
A timeless fable that is vibrant, vital, poetic and full of humanity, this is a short but perfectly formed work that you can come back to again and again.
Waterstone's Books Quarterly
If you fell in love with Babe then you'll love Fup. Simple, touching and refreshingly short
The Face
A pint-sized powerpack of a novel. It's got everything
Big Issue
Fup shows Jim Dodge to be one of the most original literary voices
Elle
Colum McCann
Paris Review
A fairytale ending worthy of Oscar Wilde
Sunday Telegraph
You'll love it
Independent on Sunday
Short, sharp and wickedly funny
Elle
Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth.
Daily Telegraph
A short, masterful and unusual fable.
The Times
This novel is fupped uck.
The Times
Stupendous. It is a jewel, a gem, a diamond in the cesspool of life.
San Francisco Chronicle
A timeless fable that is vibrant, vital, poetic and full of humanity, this is a short but perfectly formed work that you can come back to again and again.
Waterstone's Books Quarterly
If you fell in love with Babe then you'll love Fup. Simple, touching and refreshingly short
The Face
A pint-sized powerpack of a novel. It's got everything
Big Issue
Fup shows Jim Dodge to be one of the most original literary voices
Elle