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Firmin (Paperback)
$11.77 - Save $2.22 (15%) - RRP $13.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for FirminBorn in a bookstore in a blighted 1960's Boston neighborhood, Firmin the rat miraculously learns how to read by digesting his nest of books. He quickly realizes that a literate rat is a lonely rat. In a series of misadventures, Firmin is ultimately led deep into his own imaginative soul.
Full description- Publisher: DELTA
- Published: 30 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 165 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fantasy
- ISBN 13: 9780385342650 ISBN 10: 0385342659
- Sales rank: 147,687
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Full description for Firmin
In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy "Finnegans Wake, "nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, "Lady Chatterley's Lover, "and "Jane Eyre" (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes--all the literature he consumes--soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It's a lot to ask of a rat--especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation. A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning--in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book...and then had to turn the final page.""
