β Savage, Sam
π Fiction
π
2010;2006
π Coffee House Press
π English
β 346 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Firmin: adventures of a metropolitan lowlife: a novel
β Scribed by Sam Savage
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2010;2006
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 324 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1566892635
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier : 'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.'"
So begins the remarkable tale of Firmin the rat. Born in a bookstore in a blighted 1960's Boston neighborhood, Firmin miraculously learns how to read by digesting his nest of books. Alienated from his family and unable to communicate with the humans he loves, Firmin quickly realizes that a literate rat is a lonely rat.
Following a harrowing misunderstanding with his hero, the bookseller, Firmin begins to risk the dangers of Scollay Square, finding solace in the Lovelies of the burlesque cinema. Finally...
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