The new life of Tarpons
Svetlana Pironko
Novelist at Le Passeur Editeur. Former Publisher at Betimes Books.
While Les Edgerton, known as a writer of crime and Noir, is completing his new literary novel, HARD TIMES (more about it on Elizabeth White's blog: https://www.elizabethawhite.com/2016/05/16/my-journey-with-hard-times-by-les-edgerton/), I'm pleased to announce that Edgerton's very first novel—a literary novel!—THE DEATH OF TARPONS is available again from The Odyssey Press, a new literary imprint of UK's biggest digital publisher Endeavour Press: viewBook.at/Tarpons_Edgerton
“Throughout this exceptional first novel, Edgerton uses fishing as an extended metaphor for life. Like a hooked tarpon that first lurks on the bottom before leaping high out of the water, life's lows are followed by highs, and the successful angler must learn to cope with both extremes.” —Library Journal (Starred Review)
“Edgerton takes on one of the hoariest of projects, the family chronicle, but he explores individual characters and domestic relations in so particularized, so eloquent and—in the very best sense—so idiosyncratic a way, that we almost feel we are treading such ground for the first time.” —Sydney Lea, author of A Place of Mind
“Les Edgerton has created a Father's Day present that should be required reading for every American reader who ever had a father, who ever was a father or who plans eventually to be a father. The Death of Tarpons is much more than a fish story, more even than an investigation about how and why boys grow—or don't grow—into good men. […] While this book deals with violence and cruelty, it is ultimately a definition of gentleness and love. It is a good story; it is a good book.” —The Indianapolis Star (Starred Review)
“Edgerton is not just another stunning narrative talent, he is an important narrative authority – a master of his or any other generation.” —Vincent Zandri, author of As Catch Can, Permanence, and Godchild
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