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When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions. Amazon.com Review In Big Fish, Daniel Wallace angles in search of a father and hooks instead a fictional debut as winning as any this year. From his son's standpoint, Edward Bloom leaves much to be desired. He was never around when William was growing up; he eludes serious questions with a string of tall tales and jokes. This is subject matter as old as the hills, but Wallace's take is nothing if not original. Desperate to know his father before he dies, William recreates his father's life as the stuff of legend itself. In chapters titled "In Which He Speaks to Animals," "How He Tamed the Giant," "His Immortality," and the like, Edward Bloom walks miles through a blizzard, charms the socks off a giant, even runs so fast that "he could arrive in a place before setting out to get there." In between these heroic episodes, Bloom dies not once but four times, working subtle variations on a single scene in which he counters his son's questions with stories--some of which are actually very witty, indeed. After all, he admits, "...if I shared my doub

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Author

Daniel Wallace, Wallace, Daniel

Publisher

Pocket

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616201647

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.64 / 5 (215 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14