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Featuring live, footstomping music, quacking puppetry and kneehighs infamous eccentricity and charm, fup. After eighteen years of publishing anonymously and reading only to local crowds in the pacific northwest, he began to issue occasional limitededition letterpress chapbooks with a small press, as well as occasional broadsides and, since 1987, a winter solstice poem or story, most given as gifts. The main characters of this fiction, short stories story are. The main characters of this fiction, fantasy story are. Mar 24, 2000 jim dodge talks to phil daoust about mixedup mallards and sudden fame. Jim dodge is an american novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present. Jun 28, 2016 fup is a masterfullywritten, totally engaging and enormously fun read by one of americas best kept literary secrets, jim dodge. Free download or read online stone junction pdf epub book. Jim dodge is the author of three novels fup, not fade away, and stone junctionand a collection of poetry and short prose, rain on the river. Translate fup to english online and download now our free translation software to use at any time. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 59 pages and is available in paperback format.
A domesticated twentypound hen mallard thats a female duck, for those of you in the red states battles her archenemy, a wild boar named lockjaw. Buy fup by jim dodge, harry horse from waterstones today. A good book to read when the world grows too dark around you. Jim dodge talks to phil daoust about mixedup mallards and sudden fame. Highly recommended to everyone who likes their stories humorous and spiked with a lil magical realism. Many favorable views take the tone of dustjacket blurbsa stupendous book that will knock your socks off. Dive deep into jim dodges fup with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. By the author of not fade away and fup, stone junction is a bravura act of. He received his master of fine arts in creative writingpoetry from the university of iowa writers workshop in 1969 and has been the director of the creative writing program in the english department. Fup is a traditional american tall tale, truly a duck and boar story, but with the flavor of chaucerian fabliaux as though jim dodge crossbred the nuns priests tale with old yeller.
Fup by jim dodge 3 editions first published in 1983 download daisy. He has published three novelsfup, not fade away, and stone junctionand a collection of poetry. Texas destiny texas trilogy book 1 pdf book download online. Dodge was born in 1945 and grew up as an air force brat. The warrior and the woman pdf book download online. However, seattle is a small town and every five or six months i would run into them in some swillhole. It may seem strange to devote 250 words to a book 121 pages long, but jim dodge, often compared to the great thomas pynchon, has created a miniature classic worthy of the most elaborate hyperbole. Author dodge, jim subjects ducks fiction california fiction humorous stories summary a modern underground classic that spins yarns as the sunday morning pig hunt and the great checker showdown of 1978. He has published three novelsfup, not fade away, and stone junctionand a collection of poetry and prose, rain on the river. The chick grows into a mallard duck and they name it fup.
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