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 By
Jim Dodge
In the coastal hills of northern California live three larger-than-life
characters: two humans and one duck.
There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky
reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. And Tiny, adopted at the age of
four by Grandaddy Jake, he's a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.
And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound hen mallard, whose unique
presence imposes a sense of order on the Santee household.
Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires
an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous
originality with a giant heart.
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