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Title

Gullboy : the inconceivable life of Franco Pajarito Zanpa : a novel / Wade Rubenstein.

Author

Rubenstein, Wade, 1964-

Publication

New York : Counterpoint, [2005], ©2005.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xii, 400 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"A month into the rocky marriage of Ernesto Zanpe and Venus Rojo - two twenty-somethings stumbling into adulthood - Ernesto discovers a baby in a seagull's nest near their Brighton Beach bungalow. No ordinary baby, the boy has wing-like arms and a soft sheen of white feathers. Despite the baby's peculiarity, Ernesto is drawn to this "gullboy" and decides, against Venus's wishes, to raise the foundling as his own. He names the baby Franco, after his own late father, and abandons his life of loafing to support the child." "Within a year, Franco grows with bird-like speed from infant to teenager. Ernesto matures from beach bum to workaholic chef, and Venus, tired of her husband's inattention and with ambitions of her won, transforms herself into an Internet porn star. Add in a reprobate attorney, a resentful cop, an overzealous surgeon, a lusty accountant, a pair of Russian mobsters, and a teenage siren named Trina, and life becomes more than a little complicated. But perched at the center of this Brooklyn maelstrom where everything's slightly askew is our gullboy - an extraordinary child trying to grow up in a world that won't stop staring at him."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Human-animal relationships > Fiction
• Seaside resorts > Fiction
• Medical fiction
• Gulls > Fiction
• Boys > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Fantasy fiction.

ISBN

1582433305 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005013655
• 9781582433301

OCLC

• ocm60401681
• SCSB-5210394

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries