Fluke : Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore (2004, TPB)

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
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Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
Features
Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780060566685
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006056668X
ISBN-13
9780060566685
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309251672

Product Key Features

Book Title
Fluke : Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Magical Realism, Fantasy / Romantic, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Author
Christopher Moore
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-043231
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
"Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It's not a new problem; in fact, it's been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate's spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question--and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he's losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could've sworn he saw the words "Bite Me" scrawled across the whale's tail. . ., Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (n Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.O594 F58 2003

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