Fish Tales
$24.37
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2026
Summary
A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.
‘Candid, fast and alive’ - RAVEN LEILANI
‘Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands’ - JUSTIN TORRES
‘Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive’ - BRYAN WASHINGTON
‘Fish Tales will cert…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349019796 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349019797 |
| Author: | Nettie Jones |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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A burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish * Chicago Review of Books *
About The Author
Nettie Jones
Nettie Jones is the author of Fish Tales, which was acquired by Toni Morrison and published by Random House in 1984. Her second novel, Mischief Makers, was published in 1989. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Jones was named a New York Times Promising New Novelist in 1985. She is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award, a Yaddo Foundation Award, a Michigan Council of the Arts Award, a New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study Student’s Choice Award, a Carnegie Fund for Authors Award, and a PEN America Freedom to Write Award.
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