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The Eel
Guernica Editions, Spring 2016
350 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781771830591
ISBN10: 177183059X
English
$20.00 Canada, $20.00 US
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Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of "intuition and attraction" has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars -- to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where "life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun".
I will be a man fulfilled if, when my time comes, / I can disappear anonymously and without regret, / At the originating point of our world, the Sargasso Sea
David MacKinnon in The Eel channels a seamless collaboration between Lawrence Durrell and Ernest Hemingway, with prose that will haunt, startle, and yes, entertain you.
Joe Hartlaub, senior reviewer at New York’s Book Reporter
The Eel is an adventure story, a mystery, a tale of intrigue that like the fish itself twists and turns and changes colours. And it originates, quite literally, at the source of all Life.
Jim Christy, poet vagabond, tramp philosopher, novelist and sculptor
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Review: The Eel
The Book Report - August 16, 2016
Books by David MacKinnon
