ARGONAUT BOOKS

Set in the coastal hills of northern California between 1880 and the present, this story revolves around three characters - two humans and a duck. Jim Dodge's other novels include Not Fade Away and Stone Junction. Reviews I was a "wilderness educator" back in Texas in the mid-eighties . . . At night I used to read these tough, streetwise kids to sleep - Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, and a fable called Fup by Jim Dodge. They loved Fup in particular, a fable about a duck . . . I still hear from these kids - they're all over the country now and generally they'...Read More