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Amazon.com Review In his entertaining adventure-in-whale-researching, Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings , Nathan Quinn, a prominent marine biologist, has been conducting studies in Hawaii for years trying to unravel the secret of why humpback whales sing. During a typical day of data gathering, Nate believes his mind is failing: the subject whale has "Bite Me" scrawled across its tail. Events become even stranger as the self-proclaimed "action nerds," Nate, photographer Clay, their research assistant Amy, and Kona, a white Rasta (a Jewish kid from New Jersey), encounter sabotage to their data and equipment. They also observe increasingly bizarre whale behavior, including a phone call from the whale to their wealthy sponsor to ask that Nate bring it a hot pastrami and Swiss on rye, and discover both a thriving underwater city and the secret to what happened to Amelia Earhart. Thoughtful, irreverent, and often hilarious, Moore has crafted a tale that contains a bit of the saga of declining whale populations due to hunting and habitat destruction, as well as his over-the-top, decadent wit as applied to scientific methodology and professional jealousies. Moore notes a past

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Author

Moore, Christopher, 1957-

Publisher

William Morrow & Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781417629206

Category

humor

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (33,002 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14