Research Catalog
Fishbowl
- Title
- Fishbowl / Bradley Somer.
- Author
- Somer, Bradley.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-2135 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 296 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents. There's the handsome grad student, his girlfriend, and the other woman; the construction worker who feels trapped by a secret; the building's super who feels invisible and alone; the pregnant woman on bed rest who craves a forbidden ice cream sandwich; the shut-in for whom dirty talk, and quiche, are a way of life; and home-schooled Herman, a boy who thinks he can travel through time. Though they share time and space, they have something even more important in common: each faces a decision that will affect the course of their lives. Within the walls of the Seville are stories of love, new life, and death, of facing the ugly truth of who one has been and the beautiful truth of who one can become. Sometimes taking a risk is the only way to move forward with our lives. As Ian the goldfish knows, "An entire life devoted to a fishbowl will make one die an old fish with not one adventure had.""--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2135
- ISBN
- 9781250057808
- 1250057809
- LCCN
- 2015017166
- OCLC
- 910073202
- 910073202
- Author
- Somer, Bradley.
- Title
- Fishbowl / Bradley Somer.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2135