He has written one book for children, Elynora, and in 2008 it was published in Italy, with illustrations by Daniela Tordi. Sebastian and the Negro Magician (2007), and most recently The Kings and Queens of Roam (2013). It was the perfect vacation book to kinda get me away from the other five individual book series that I’m currently in the middle of. Daniel Wallace is author of five novels, including Big Fish (1998), Ray in Reverse (2000), The Watermelon King (2003), Mr. Maybe it was just a few months ago but regardless, it’s been starring me down from the bookshelf for a long time and it would feel so wrong to give this book anything less than a five star rating. There is a lot of symbolism in it that I am still trying to decipher and understand better. He’s charming and charismatic but he’s only a man and like the rest of us, he isn’t perfect.īig Fish breaks life down for the reader in a series of jokes and legends that in the end really make you feel so small.
Ed is this bigger than life hero, but he is humble. Big fish : a novel of mythic proportions by Wallace, Daniel, 1959-Publication date 2003 Topics Fathers and sons - Fiction, Terminally ill - Fiction, Storytelling. The narrator, William Bloom tells the story if his dying father in a beautifully written story full of outrageous tall tales that are just as unbelievable to accomplish as they are to imagine.Įdward Bloom is the most interesting man in the world. The author, Daniel Wallace is a big fan of Roman and Greek mythology and he uses his love for mythicism as well as his love for his father all through the novel. This was one of those tiny-but-eye-opening-books, the kind that make you question and rethink your life. Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions – Daniel Wallace
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