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"Wildly ambitious ... the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Waste Land,' Fahrenheit 451 and Dog Soldiers , screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling. The New York Times The nuclear holocaust has been and gone, and now everything is different. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in radioactive artefacts. Boats go out to comb the sea for fish, and the sea keeps some of the men. Tossing fitfully in nightmares of forgotten wars, lazing in the tropical heat, the flotsam and jetsam of a lost civilization pursue their lives through a world of fractured memories. And they wait - for the Cubans to come, for the Quarantine to be lifted, for the god Quetzalcoatl, the god Bob

Who reads Fiskadoro?

Author

Johnson, Denis

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060976095

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.53 / 5 (1,320 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13