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Fup

A Modern Fable

Author: Jim Dodge and Harry Horse   Series: Canons

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Summary

Fup is a tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky

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Description

There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.

And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household.

Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.

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Critic Reviews

  • I was a "wilderness educator" back in Texas in the mid-eighties ... At night I used to read these tough, streetwise kids to sleep - Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, and a fable called Fup by Jim Dodge. They loved Fup in particular, a fable about a duck ... I still hear from these kids - they're all over the country now and generally they're out of trouble, except for the fact that they might be reading Fup to their kids -- Colum McCann Paris Review A fairytale ending worthy of Oscar Wilde Sunday Telegraph You'll love it Independent on Sunday Short, sharp and wickedly funny Elle Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth. Daily Telegraph This novel is fupped uck. The Times Stupendous. It is a jewel, a gem, a diamond in the cesspool of life. San Francisco Chronicle A short, masterful and unusual fable. The Times A timeless fable that is vibrant, vital, poetic and full of humanity, this is a short but perfectly formed work that you can come back to again and again. Waterstone's Books Quarterly If you fell in love with Babe then you'll love Fup. Simple, touching and refreshingly short The Face A pint-sized powerpack of a novel. It's got everything Big Issue Fup shows Jim Dodge to be one of the most original literary voices Elle
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About the Author

Jim Dodge is the author of three novels - Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction - and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River. He lived for many years on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years, a woodcutter and an environmental restorer.

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books | Canongate Canons
Published
3rd September 2015
Format
Paperback
Edition
Main - Canons ed
Pages
128
ISBN
9781782116356

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