Fiskadoro

Denis Johnson

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Vintage
15 February 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction

'A marvellous book, beautifully written and constantly entertaining-. He is a wonderful storyteller' Washington Post

'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' 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 Marley, the god Jesus to return and build their kingdoms.

From the author of Tree of Smoke, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

By: Denis Johnson
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9780099440840
ISBN 10: 0099440849
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 February 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Denis Johnson is the author of eight novels, one novella, one book of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award. His latest novel, The Laughing Monsters, is published by Harvill Secker in 2015.

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Wildly ambitious. . . Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling * New York Times * A leap of the imagination. . . stunningly delivered * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Haunting. . .an eerie and powerful visionary novel * Boston Globe *

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