![]() ![]() As a wealthy older man he preserves a small southern town from the rancorous present by becoming its feudal lord. As a young man he saves a child from an unearthly dog, rescues a lovely water spirit, and returns an enchanted eye to its rightful owner. He reads every book in town, tames a lonely giant who has taken to eating the locals- crops and dogs, and hitches a ride on a giant catfish. Growing up in Alabama as a “strong quiet boy, with a mind of his own,” this mythic version of Edward has an affinity with wild animals and the uncanny. A baffled William, waiting for the end, begins to create a series of tall tales in which his enigmatic parent is remade as a paradigmatic American folk hero. ![]() But his father, an incorrigible jokester, deflects all of his son’s queries with one-liners. Now, however, he’s come home to die, and William is desperate to understand something of his father’s life and character before he vanishes. Restlessly wandering the world, he has returned home to see his wife and son only at rare, unpredictable intervals. ![]() Edward Bloom has grown wealthy running his own import/export business. ![]() An audacious, highly original debut novel, in which a son attempts to resolve the mysteries surrounding his father by re-creating the man’s life as a series of exuberant tall tales. ![]()
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