Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange ** ** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring?Kelsey Grammer **Do you ever really know your father?? Like many sons,?William Bloom?never really knew his father.?Edward?told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But now?Edward?is dying, suddenly it matters a great deal.? So William?sets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams.?Through legends and myths,?William?makes?Edward?into a true?Big Fish.?The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London.? Praise for?Big Fish: 'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in?Big Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump 'Both comic and poignant'?New York Times 'An audacious, highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son's love for a charming, unknowable father'?Kirkus Reviews 'Refreshing, original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale'?Publishers Weekly, starred review
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