Fup - Softcover

Jim Dodge

4.08

3,527 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841954896 ISBN 13: 9781841954899

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2004

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In the coastal hills of northern California live three larger-than-life characters: two humans and one duck. There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. And Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, he's a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound hen mallard, whose unique presence imposes a sense of order on 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.

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About the Author:

Jim Dodge is the author of three novels - Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction - and a collection so poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lives 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 and a woodcutter. He currently works as an environmental restorer - primarily tree planting, log-jam removal and erosion control.

Review:

You'll love it. * * Independent on Sunday * * Delightful and surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth. * * Daily Telegraph * * Short, sharp and wickedly funny. * * Elle * * This novel is fupped uck. * * The Times * * Stupendous. It is a jewel, a gem, a diamond in the cesspool of life. * * San Francisco Chronicle * *

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