The Eel

By (author): David MacKinnon

Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of “intuition and attraction” has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars — to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where “life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun”.

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David MacKinnon

David J. MacKinnon is a Sorbonne graduate in history cum laude, a member of two law societies, and has translated for the international criminal tribunals of Rwanda, the Hague and Yugoslavia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Legal Translators, and is co-founder and Director of the Long March to Rome, an indigenous-led mission seeking repeal of the Papal Bulls of Discovery. In earlier days, he worked as oil field roughneck, toilet factory worker, longshoreman and morgue attendant. He has walked the ancient Santiago de Compostela pilgrim’s trail and to Chartres several times. He has published two novels, Leper Tango and The Eel, and a critically-acclaimed translation of radio interviews of the French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars in Blaise Cendrars Speaks.


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Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of “intuition and attraction” has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfil the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars — to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where “life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun”.

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Dimensions:

400 Pages
9in * 6.01in * 0.77in
490gr

Published:

April 01, 2016

City of Publication:

Hamilton

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Guernica Editions

ISBN:

9781771830591

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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