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The Singing Fish

by Peter Markus

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ISBN13: 9780974605388
ISBN10: 0974605387
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These interwoven tales that make up The Singing Fish are not told, but spun from a primal, almost child-like, source of mythic language — sublimated from the fundamental building blocks of mud, brother, river, girl, moon, fish and a rusted nail.

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"Peter Markus' gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherly sweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime." Gary Lutz, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive

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"There is an obsessive quality about Peter Markus' writing that I am obsessed with and a musicality that I cannot get out of my head. The fish are singing and Peter Markus is too." Michael Kimball, author of The Way the Family Got Away and How Much of Us There Was
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About the Author

Peter Markus is the author of Still Lives with Whisky Bottle, Good, Brother, and The Moon is a Lighthouse.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780974605388
Subtitle:
The Singing Fish
Author:
Markus, Peter
Publisher:
CALAMARI PRESS
Location:
New York, N.Y.
Copyright:
2004
Publication Date:
2004
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Pages:
87
Dimensions:
5 x 7 inches
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