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Fishbowl: A Novel - 9781250057808, hardcover, Bradley Somer
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250057809
ISBN-13
9781250057808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204163245
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fishbowl : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-017166
Reviews
Fishbowl is a marvelous portrayal of the tentative - and often funny - ways human beings muddle about trying to connect with one another., "An irrepressible novel-breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life. Bradley Somer has enormous affection and empathy for his cast of all-too-human characters (including the goldfish named Ian)." -Tom Perrotta"Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight. I just loved it." -Laura McBride, author of the #1 Indie Next Pick We Are Called to Rise, An irrepressible novel--breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life. Bradley Somer has enormous affection and empathy for his cast of all-too-human characters (including the goldfish named Ian)., For all their eccentricities, these characters are united by a sense of desperation. . . The quaint lesson. . . is that people should take flight from the narrow confines of their fears and find adventure in the wider world of others., Readers may be reminded of novels like Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City . . . or anthology films like 1995's Four Rooms , where shenanigans in a hotel are separated by walls, but still interact., Fishbowl boasts an abundance of mordant whimsy fused to a bodhisattva's sensibility, as if the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had mysteriously found himself reincarnated as the fifteenth Dalai Lama and then continued to write epigrammatic novels., Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight. I just loved it., Somer's strengths as puppet master make Fishbowl an entertaining read, as he wrong-foots the reader with cliffhangers that draw his cast into a tightening net of intrigue, revelation, rescue and redemption . . . Somer tackles loneliness, life, love and death with wit and sensitivity., "An irrepressible novel-breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life. Bradley Somer has enormous affection and empathy for his cast of all-too-human characters (including the goldfish named Ian)." -Tom Perrotta, author of the New York Times bestseller The Leftovers "Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight. I just loved it." -Laura McBride, author of the #1 Indie Next Pick We Are Called to Rise " Fishbowl boasts an abundance of mordant whimsy fused to a bodhisattva's sensibility, as if the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had mysteriously found himself reincarnated as the fifteenth Dalai Lama and then continued to write epigrammatic novels."-James Morrow, author of Galápagos Regained , Enjoyable touches of farce and wry asides abound, underscoring moments of reckoning in eccentric, yet deeply human, dilemmas., " Fishbowl is a marvelous portrayal of the tentative - and often funny - ways human beings muddle about trying to connect with one another." -- The Toronto Star "Enjoyable touches of farce and wry asides abound, underscoring moments of reckoning in eccentric, yet deeply human, dilemmas." -- Publishers Weekly "For all their eccentricities, these characters are united by a sense of desperation. . . The quaint lesson. . . is that people should take flight from the narrow confines of their fears and find adventure in the wider world of others." -- The Wall Street Journal "Somer has created well-developed characters and effectively transports the reader into their three-dimensional worlds. . . genuinely touching." -- Kirkus Reviews "Somer's strengths as puppet master make Fishbowl an entertaining read, as he wrong-foots the reader with cliffhangers that draw his cast into a tightening net of intrigue, revelation, rescue and redemption . . . Somer tackles loneliness, life, love and death with wit and sensitivity." -- The Globe and Mail "Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight." -- Laura McBride, author of the #1 Indie Next Pick We Are Called to Rise "An irrepressible novel--breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life. Bradley Somer has enormous affection and empathy for his cast of all-too-human characters (including the goldfish named Ian)." -- Tom Perrotta, author of the New York Times bestseller The Leftovers " Fishbowl boasts an abundance of mordant whimsy fused to a bodhisattva's sensibility, as if the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had mysteriously found himself reincarnated as the fifteenth Dalai Lama and then continued to write epigrammatic novels." -- James Morrow, author of Galápagos Regained "Readers may be reminded of novels like Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City . . . or anthology films like 1995's Four Rooms , where shenanigans in a hotel are separated by walls, but still interact." -- NPR, " Fishbowl is a marvelous portrayal of the tentative - and often funny - ways human beings muddle about trying to connect with one another." -- The Toronto Star "Enjoyable touches of farce and wry asides abound, underscoring moments of reckoning in eccentric, yet deeply human, dilemmas." -- Publishers Weekly "For all their eccentricities, these characters are united by a sense of desperation. . . The quaint lesson. . . is that people should take flight from the narrow confines of their fears and find adventure in the wider world of others." -- The Wall Street Journal "Somer has created well-developed characters and effectively transports the reader into their three-dimensional worlds. . . genuinely touching." -- Kirkus Reviews "Somer's strengths as puppet master make Fishbowl an entertaining read, as he wrong-foots the reader with cliffhangers that draw his cast into a tightening net of intrigue, revelation, rescue and redemption . . . Somer tackles loneliness, life, love and death with wit and sensitivity." -- The Globe and Mail "Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight." -- Laura McBride, author of the #1 Indie Next Pick We Are Called to Rise "An irrepressible novel--breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life. Bradley Somer has enormous affection and empathy for his cast of all-too-human characters (including the goldfish named Ian)." -- Tom Perrotta, author of the New York Times bestseller The Leftovers " Fishbowl boasts an abundance of mordant whimsy fused to a bodhisattva's sensibility, as if the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had mysteriously found himself reincarnated as the fifteenth Dalai Lama and then continued to write epigrammatic novels." -- James Morrow, author of Galpagos Regained "Readers may be reminded of novels like Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City . . . or anthology films like 1995's Four Rooms , where shenanigans in a hotel are separated by walls, but still interact." -- NPR, Fishbowl boasts an abundance of mordant whimsy fused to a bodhisattva's sensibility, as if the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had mysteriously found himself reincarnated as the fifteenth Dalai Lama and then continued to write epigrammatic novels., Take the tumble with Ian. Perhaps like me you will fall, end over end, through these pages: expectant, engaged, enthused, curious, entranced, alarmed. Bradley Somer's captivating novel is a delight.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents. There's the handsome grad student, his girlfriend, and his mistress; the construction worker who feels trapped by a secret; the building's super who feels invisible and alone; the pregnant woman on bed rest who craves a forbidden ice cream sandwich; the shut-in for whom dirty talk, and quiche, are a way of life; and home-schooled Herman, a boy who thinks he can travel through time. Though they share time and space, they have something even more important in common: each faces a decision that will affect the course of their lives. Within the walls of the Seville are stories of love, new life, and death, of facing the ugly truth of who one has been and the beautiful truth of who one can become. Sometimes taking a risk is the only way to move forward with our lives. As Ian the goldfish knows, "An entire life devoted to a fishbowl will make one die an old fish with not one adventure had." In the tradition of Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City , Bradley Somer's Fishbowl is at turns funny and heartbreaking., A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents. There's the handsome grad student, his girlfriend, and his mistress; the construction worker who feels trapped by a secret; the building's super who feels invisible and alone; the pregnant woman on bed rest who craves a forbidden ice cream sandwich; the shut-in for whom dirty talk, and quiche, are a way of life; and home-schooled Herman, a boy who thinks he can travel through time. Though they share time and space, they have something even more important in common: each faces a decision thatwill affect the course of their lives. Within the walls of the Seville are stories of love, new life, and death, of facing the ugly truth of who one has been and the beautiful truth of who one can become. Sometimes taking a risk is the only way to move forward with our lives. As Ian the goldfish knows, "An entire life devoted to a fishbowl will make one die an old fish with not one adventure had." In the tradition of Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City , Bradley Somer's Fishbowl is at turns funny and heartbreaking.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.4.S6977F57
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- f***d (183)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook was in a little better condition than I expected. Very poor packaging: the thin plastic envelope arrived torn 3/4 of the way open containing all three books, two of which were hardbacks. Their weight was too much for such a flimsy envelope. I'm surprised at least one didn't fall out and that they arrived intact.