Big Fish by Daniel Wallace [FIRST EDITION / 1998]

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace 

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1998] ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket has some light corner wear  and some mild creasing to edges; otherwise in beautiful shape. 

Book itself looks and reads like new.  

He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive.

Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes -or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous- William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats, and his great failings.