Fup A Modern Fable
- 3 Sep 2015
- 9781782116356
- £9.99
- 128 pp
- 129×198mm
- 20 Nov 2008
- 9781847673633
- £7.99
- 128 pp
In a few words
Fup is a tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky
In a few words
A tale of two humans, one duck and several vats of home-brewed whisky
I was a "wilderness educator" back in Texas in the mid-eighties . . . At night I used to read these tough, streetwise kids to sleep - Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, and a fable called Fup by Jim Dodge. They loved Fup in particular, a fable about a duck . . . I still hear from these kids - they're all over the country now and generally they're out of trouble, except for the fact that they might be reading Fup to their kids
Colum Mccann
Paris ReviewA fairytale ending worthy of Oscar Wilde
You'll love it.
Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth.
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There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol’ Death Whisper, he reckons he’s in with good shot at immortality. And then there’s Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.
And then there’s Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household.
Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.
More about
the book
There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol’ Death Whisper, he reckons he’s in with good shot at immortality. And then there’s Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.
And then there’s Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household.
Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.
You'll love it
Short, sharp and wickedly funny
Delightful and constantly surprising. Jim Dodge has produced something rare: a fairy tale that is wonderfully down to earth.
A short, masterful and unusual fable.
Short, sharp and wickedly funny.
This novel is fupped uck.
Stupendous. It is a jewel, a gem, a diamond in the cesspool of life.
A short, masterful and unusual fable.
Jim Dodge
View profileJim Dodge is the author of three novels – Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction – and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River.
He lived for many years on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years, a woodcutter and an environmental restorer.
Jim Dodge
View profileJim Dodge is the author of three novels – Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction – and a collection of poetry and short prose, Rain on the River.
He lives on an isolated ranch in western Sonoma County and has been by turns an apple picker, a carpet layer, a teacher, a professional gambler, a shepherd for five years and a woodcutter. He currently works as an environmental restorer – primarily in tree planting, log-jam removal and erosion control.
