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  <title><![CDATA[Fishboy]]></title>
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  <default_description>In the brilliant idiom of a modern Melville or Conrad, an odyssey of discovery by a bold and outrageous talent--the PEN/Hemingway Award--winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Ice At The Bottom Of The World&lt;/i&gt;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The prose was beautiful, but this book is based on a short story, and the story just couldn't carry me through the whole thing. Still, I plan on picking up his short-story collection.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I seek out writing where the language draws attention to itself, I usually turn to modern poetry, which is to say not that often. In his novel Mr. Richard is drunk with language and the results are intoxicating— the consonants are thick, the nouns rounded, caught upon the gag prickles on the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25517602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what a bizarre ride this book took me on.  a surreal moby dick tale.  what a writer.  he deserves far more critical aclaim.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this over ten years ago, but I do remember that I liked it.  It is one of only a few of my books that Frankie liked.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fine first novel, enjoyed it very much.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a poor orphan boy who runs away to sea, has a series of adventures among a crew of misfits, and returns home somewhat the worse for wear. The sort of novel Melville and Faulkner would have written had they been collaborating and had a supply of hallucinogens handy. The tale Fishboy tell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19007525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite book...the book that got me reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>&quot;Across the creek the rising water shifted a run-aground wreck  and bats by the thousands spun up through the smokestacks like the black fur of exhaust blown from boilers stoked by ghosts. The smudge of bats was split here and there by gulls and terns making whitecaps of flight to drier r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/290906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Warped, filthy, barnacle-encrusted yarn which drags its narrative anchor and marauds across a roiling main of recollections ghoulish and macabre.[return][return]Also very funny. Of particular interest to those with experience of, or ambitions to, cooking at sea.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very bleak, dark and turbid story. I doubt I will ever want to become a sailor now. And I understand the futility of restoring a vintage motorcycle in the boiler-room of an ocean-going trawler.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The quirkest read EVER! You either &quot;get it&quot; or you don't...I love springing this one on people. It is poetic, surreal and so very entertaining! LOVE this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[funny, sad, scary, beautiful ghost story. it made ross sculpt. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book, hands (or fins) down.]]></body>
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