![]() ![]() These backward glances - He Speaks to Animals, How He Tamed the Giant, How He Saved My Life, for example-are the stuff of modern-day legend. A salesman from Ashland, Alabama, who, by his own confession, just wanted to be a great man, Edward is revealed in a series of amusing, backward glances as a man quick with a rib-splitting joke as well as full of wise if improbable tales of his heroic past that blend into the mythic, even fairy-tale-like material of transcendence. Edward Bloom, William's father, is dying. But this event is not just witnessed, as the subtitle suggests, it is turned over and imaginatively recreated four times, to be exact until the son William Bloom can get it right. Thank Daniel Wallace, first-time novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, now residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for a singular and surprisingly comic contemplation on the death and life of a father as witnessed by his son. ![]()
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