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A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
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A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind

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In a small town in Belgium near the French border on the morning of Saint Woelfred’s festival, dead fish lie on the ground, scattered everywhere, as if blown in by the wind. The quarries that were once active now stand empty and will soon be used as toxic waste dumps. Are the fish a sign from the saint? Or simply a cruel trick played by Contexture, the dance group who once stripped naked at the Vatican? Blending a realistic portrayal of communal life with elements of fantasy and surrealism, including the lost poems of Arthur Rimbaud, this story narrates how six lives from this provincial town are changed forever.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2011
ISBN9781908946010
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
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Christien Gholson

Christien Gholson grew up in a navy family, living in Belgium, Italy, and numerous places across the North American continent. He has been a union organizer, janitor, farmhand, bookseller, teacher, cartoonist, itinerent poet-musician and editor. He attended Naropa University and the creative writing program at University of California at Davis, and has also authored prose poetry collection On the Side of the Crow (Parthian, 2011).

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    It's going to take me a while to process all that went on in this book. For now, though, I say get yourself a copy and read it for yourself. I am having flashbacks to Tim Winton's "The Riders" -- there are similarities -- and I might have to reread that story at around the same time I reread this debut novel by Christien Gholson. There is a lot packed into this relatively short tome: the mysterious invasion of fish in a small Belgian town in the mid 1980s; the interweaving of the lives of six people who live there; letters from a traveler searching for Rimbaud....

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A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind - Christien Gholson

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