Big Fish

A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starringKelsey Grammer Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons, William Bloom never really knew his father. Edward told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs. And that never mattered. But nowEdwardis dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. So Williamsets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams.Through legends and myths,WilliammakesEdwardinto a true Big Fish. The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. Praise for Big Fish : 'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in Big Fish ' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump 'Both comic and poignant ' New York Times 'An audacious , highly original debut novel. . . An imaginative, and moving, record of a son’s love for a charming, unknowable father' Kirkus Reviews ' Refreshing , original. . . Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical. His chapters have the transformative quality of fable and fairy tale ' Publishers Weekly , starred review

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