Fup - A Modern Fable

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Dodge, Dodge Jim
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2015
• EAN: 9781782116356
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-635-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 9 mm
• Series: The Canons; The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary