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Fiskadoro
After nuclear war ravages their land, survivors must collect remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Mar 31st, 1995
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.25in - 0.58in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780060976095
- Categories: • Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic• Dystopian• Literary
About the Author
Johnson, Denis: - Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels. His poetry has been collected in the volume The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.
Praise for this book
"A leap of the imagination. . . stunningly delivered."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review""A mythical story. . . coming-of-nuclear-age tale, the making of a new man from the ashes of the old world. . . a key to the conundrum at the center of the world."-- "Philadelphia Inquirer""A marvelous book, beautifully written and constantly entertaining. . . . With it Johnson firmly establishes his place as one of the very best contemporary writers. He is a wonderful storyteller, and if at times Fiskadoro seems a mixture of Sameul Beckett, Phillip K. Dick and Road Warrior, that is only to his credit."-- "Washington Post""Haunting. . .an eerie and powerful visionary novel."-- "Boston Globe""Wildly ambitious. . .the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland, ' Farenheit 451 and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. . . . Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling."-- "New York Times"