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Jim dodge is the author of three novels fup, not fade away, and stone junction and a collection of poetry and short prose, rain on the river. As you can tell from zacharys remarks, thats the kind of book this isa pacific northwest cult novel, passed from friend to friend like samizdat used to be in the soviet union. Fup is a traditional american tall tale, truly a duck and boar story, but with the flavor of chaucerian fabliaux as though jim dodge crossbred the nuns priests tale with old yeller. A domesticated twentypound hen mallard thats a female duck, for those of you in the red states battles her archenemy, a wild boar named lockjaw.
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