{"product_id":"fish-tales","title":"Fish Tales","description":"THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC\u003cbr\u003e*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025*\u003cbr\u003e*A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025*\u003cbr\u003e*A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring*\u003cbr\u003e*A Time Best Book of the Month*\u003cbr\u003e*A The Week Best Book of 2025*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e'Candid, fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI\u003cbr\u003e'Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands' JUSTIN TORRES\u003cbr\u003e'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis Jones is a party girl on the edge. Bankrolled by her husband Woody and accompanied by her fellow hedonist Kitty Kat, a hustler who knows all the best spots, Lewis bounces between the demimonde of 70s New York and affluent Black Detroit in a fractured haze of lovers, cocaine parties and champagne baths. But her wild pursuit of freedom is upended when she meets the handsome, erudite, cruel Brook - the only man who won't allow her to take control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA kaleidoscopic swirl of sex and exploitation, selfhood and self-destruction, this lost classic is an unnervingly contemporary depiction of the collision between identity, freedom and female desire - perfect for fans of In the Cut, Oreo, Luster and I'm a Fan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie' ANGELA FLOURNOY\u003cbr\u003e'A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . We'll all be better for it having been rediscovered' LITERARY HUB\u003cbr\u003e'Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a panther . . . Unlike anything I've ever read' New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e'A cult classic . . . [A] sharp, fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart' The Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e'A burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish' Chicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e'An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . . . a meditation on female sexuality and the cost of pursuing freedom without self-preservation' TLS","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53786559250770,"sku":"9780349019772","price":21.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_7e7003b9-4c26-4ce6-bcc0-65cd860d2f93.jpg?v=1781781667","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/fish-tales","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}