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Amphibian
Carla Gunn
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Description for Amphibian
Paperback. Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic, obsessive knowledge of the natural world. He knows that rockfish have swim bladders that can burst and push their intestines out their butts, and he knows that barnacles have the longest penises in the animal kingdom. What he doesn't know is why his granddad had to die. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) A Globe and Mail Top Five First Fiction Title of 2009 Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) A Globe and Mail Top Five First Fiction Title of 2009 Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452141
SKU
V9781552452141
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Carla Gunn
Carla Gunn's work has been published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and heard on CBC radio. Along with writing, she teaches psychology and she worries. About everything. But especially climate change, mass extinctions and that mole that she can feel but not see. This is her first novel.
Reviews for Amphibian
'Carla Gunn has fashioned (more likely been possessed by) an irresistible voice ... [Her] sense of the absurd
drawn always from the grim facts
is the sort that trumps despair with healing mirth.'
Globe and Mail 'Amphibian is a sweet and smart book for optimists of any age, and Phin the perfect eco hero for intelligent readers ... Read more
drawn always from the grim facts
is the sort that trumps despair with healing mirth.'
Globe and Mail 'Amphibian is a sweet and smart book for optimists of any age, and Phin the perfect eco hero for intelligent readers ... Read more