![]() ![]() ![]() At first I thought I’d get away with reading The Subtle Knife, but one of the stipulations of the challenge is to read something new, and I ended up choosing Big Fish because it was vaguely familiar to me since I’d heard of the film.I ended up enjoying this book immensely which I honestly didn’t expect since I’d only chosen it for the challenge. I was given the year 1998, and I went off to research books published in 1998. The challenge involved members of the group giving each other a different year, and then you read a book that was published in that year. I only picked this up because of a challenge I took part in with a Facebook book club that I’m a part of. I’d heard of the film but had never watched it and didn’t even know it was a book. This isn’t a book that I’d ever considered reading in fact I never actually knew it existed. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020 ![]() His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale ' Publishers Weekly, starred review Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. An imaginative, and moving, record of a son’s love for a charming, unknowable father' Kirkus Reviews ' Refreshing, original. Praise for Big Fish : 'Both comic and poignant ' New York Times 'An audacious, highly original debut novel. The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams. Through legends and myths, William makes Edward into a true Big Fish. So William sets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. But now Edward is dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. Edward told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. ** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange ** ** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer ** Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons, William Bloom never really knew his father. ![]()
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