Fishbowl - Softcover

Somer, Bradley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250105889 ISBN 13: 9781250105882

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2016

Synopsis

Ian the goldfish has always longed for adventure. So when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the railing of the 27th-floor balcony, and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, he 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 alter the course of their lives. Within these walls 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. 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.

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Review:

"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 "Galapagos Regained"

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Book Description:

Tales of the City as seen by a goldfish - a charming and highly original literary novel

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1250105889
• ISBN 13: 9781250105882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304