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| AUTHOR: | Daniel Wallace |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Penguin USA (Paper) |
| ISBN: | 0142004278 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - General, General, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, Movie/Tv Tie-Ins |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Big Fish
Don't be fooled by the size Many reviewers, and even the Reader's Guide in Big Fish, speak about its important mythical parallels and insight to father/son relationships. There is no doubt that both of these make Big Fish an incredibly intricate novel.
But Wallace's ability to write in the way we remember is what makes Big Fish a great read. Although we generally follow his tale of William Bloom's father, Edward Bloom, in chronological order, it is not necessarily so. The reader is never quite sure when a specific tale occurred, nor does it matter in your understanding of Edward or of William. The tales occur as they are triggered in William's memory, as he strives to understand his father, to see what he has seen and feel what he has felt.
Wallace's writing reflects the joys of oral traditions, of storytelling, of fabrication, of fantasy, of re-creating ourselves in other's eyes and the consequences that may bring.
Big Fish is a wonderful, multi-layered series of stories combined to create a joy of a novel.
Great stuff
Brilliant and moving, like Jackson McCrae's THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD or Pat Conroy's THE GREAT SANTINI, this book covers a lot of territory both physically and emotionally. Well crafted writing and a great plot make this one of the most enjoyable reads I've come across in a while. The form of the book is pretty unique, and the voice the story is told in is fresh and vibrant. Big Fish the movie has three distinct narratives. Narrative one is the son's interpretation of his father's stories. The fantasy scenes are the son's exaggeration of what his father is telling him. Then there is story of the father's last days before he dies and the son's attempts to understand his father. Finally (and this is Burton's largest contribution) is the meeting of the truth of the father's stories meeting with the son's expectations of that truth. This happens at the funneral -- a wonderful addition brings the two divergent stories together.
Great stuff.
Beyond belief and yet completely grounded in reality
In this story of stories within a story, the reader is taken to strange places that may seem all too familiar. A character seems ridiculous and then is someone you already knew. And events that never happened - that could never happen - are suddenly remembered to have taken place. In short, the author takes the reader far away from reality to reflect upon the here and now.