Big Fish

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A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor & Jessica Lange COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer Do you ever really know your father? Like many sons William Bloom never really knew his father Edward told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter & brush-offs & that never mattered But now Edward is dying suddenly it matters a great deal So William sets out to tell his father's story as he imagines it He tames a giant is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake & escapes a purgatory of lost dreams Through legends & myths William makes Edward into a true Big Fish The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London Praise for Big Fish ' Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in Big Fish' Winston Groom author of Forrest Gump ' Both comic & poignant' New York Times ' An audacious highly original debut novel An imaginative & moving record of a son's love for a charming unknowable father' Kirkus Reviews ' Refreshing original Wallace mixes the mundane & the mythical His chapters have the transformative quality of fable & fairy tale' Publishers Weekly starred review