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Something's fishy in Brooklyn.
January 2006 | Fiction
$10 Paperback
ISBN: 1-56947-416-8
North American rights: Soho Press
All other rights: Fletcher & Parry
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"A comedic noir [that] brims
throughout with hyperspecific detail and hipster patois... I was, uh, fairly
hooked... With an imagination this rich, what will Milligan do next?"
—Henry Alford, —Henry Alford,
The New York Times Book Review |
"[Jack Fish] has noir elements
galore: the car chase, the stalker stakeout, the slam-o-rama fight, the curbside
snatch into a dark Lincoln. The language snaps... [It's] a breezy romp through
downtown's metrosexual underbelly."
—Village Voice |
"Zany, bouncy, endlessly droll,
Milligan's story is filled with oddball characters and cheeky irreverence,
and through the eyes of a true foreigner New York seems more grimy, eccentric
and alive than ever."
—Publishers Weekly |
"Will have readers chuckling the whole
way.... A pure pleasure."
—Booklist |
"Greatly entertaining."
—San Francisco Chronicle |
"A wild ride through a groovy new novelist's
imagination."
—James Ellroy, author of
LA Confidential |
"An astonishing literary debut . . . No
doubt about it, Jack Fish will blow you out of the water."
—Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex
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"What an astounding, loony tour de force!
Hard-boiled yet comedic, realistic yet absurd — Jack Fish is a noir
story told in technicolor. It also puts in time as a real love letter to
New York City. J Milligan is a great new writer, and this is a great new
book."
—Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! |
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Somewhere off Coney Island, paddling through the seaweed and Styrofoam is secret agent "Jack Fish." As an operative of the Elders of Atlantis, he is to locate their enemy and spear him.
Staggering out of the water, Jack begins his odyssey into the strange city of New York. He's concerned about adjusting, but he discovers the Topworld is teeming with air-breathers who seem as alien as he feels. ("You're from Atlanta?") If he can make it here, he can make it anywhere.
Jack Fish is just another dude from out of town, hanging out at the Mermaid Diner, scratching the webbing between his toes.
J MILLIGAN has been published in The
New Yorker, XXL
Magazine, and on word.com. He is co-author of a nonfiction book, The
Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch). He lives in Brooklyn with
his wife, the artist Amy Yang, their daughter, and three cats and a dog. His
yo-yo is blue. Visit www.j-milligan.com to see what he's been up to lately.
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