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The Eel

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Pub Date Apr 01 2016 | Archive Date Oct 11 2016

Literary Fiction

Description

Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars -- to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where "life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun".

Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan...

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Advance Praise

"David MacKinnon in The Eel channels a seamless collaboration between Lawrence Durrell and Ernest Hemingway, with prose that will haunt, startle, and yes, entertain you." - Joe Hartlaub, senior reviewer at New York’s Book Reporter

"The Eel is an adventure story, a mystery, a tale of intrigue that like the fish itself twists and turns and changes colours. And it originates, quite literally, at the source of all Life." - Jim Christy, poet vagabond, tramp philosopher, novelist and sculptor

"David MacKinnon in The Eel channels a seamless collaboration between Lawrence Durrell and Ernest Hemingway, with prose that will haunt, startle, and yes, entertain you." - Joe Hartlaub, senior...

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ISBN 9781771830591
PRICE $25.00 (USD)

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