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Biografisk notat
Nettie Jones is the author of Fish Tales, which was acquired by Toni Morrison and published by Random House in 1984. Her second novel, Mischief Makers, was published in 1989. Her essays and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Jones was named a New York Times Promising New Novelist in 1985. She is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award, a Yaddo Foundation Award, a Michigan Council of the Arts Award, a New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study Student's Choice Award, a Carnegie Fund for Authors Award, and a PEN America Freedom to Write Award.
A <b>burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish</b>
Chicago Review of Books
THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC
*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025*
*A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025*
*A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring*
*A Time Best Book of the Month*
*A The Week Best Book of 2025*
Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.
***
'Candid, fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI
'Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands' JUSTIN TORRES
'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON
Lewis Jones is a party girl on the edge. Bankrolled by her husband Woody and accompanied by her fellow hedonist Kitty Kat, a hustler who knows all the best spots, Lewis bounces between the demimonde of 70s New York and affluent Black Detroit in a fractured haze of lovers, cocaine parties and champagne baths. But her wild pursuit of freedom is upended when she meets the handsome, erudite, cruel Brook - the only man who won't allow her to take control.
A kaleidoscopic swirl of sex and exploitation, selfhood and self-destruction, this lost classic is an unnervingly contemporary depiction of the collision between identity, freedom and female desire - perfect for fans of In the Cut, Oreo, Luster and I'm a Fan.
'Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie' ANGELA FLOURNOY
'A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . We'll all be better for it having been rediscovered' LITERARY HUB
'Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a panther . . . Unlike anything I've ever read' New York Times Book Review
'A cult classic . . . [A] sharp, fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart' The Atlantic
'A burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish' Chicago Review of Books
'An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . . . a meditation on female sexuality and the cost of pursuing freedom without self-preservation' TLS
A <b>burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish</b>
Chicago Review of Books
THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC
*A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025*
*A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025*
*A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring*
*A Time Best Book of the Month*
*A The Week Best Book of 2025*
Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.
***
'Candid, fast and alive' RAVEN LEILANI
'Fast, fearless, so full of life it practically vibrates in your hands' JUSTIN TORRES
'Wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive' BRYAN WASHINGTON
Lewis Jones is a party girl on the edge. Bankrolled by her husband Woody and accompanied by her fellow hedonist Kitty Kat, a hustler who knows all the best spots, Lewis bounces between the demimonde of 70s New York and affluent Black Detroit in a fractured haze of lovers, cocaine parties and champagne baths. But her wild pursuit of freedom is upended when she meets the handsome, erudite, cruel Brook - the only man who won't allow her to take control.
A kaleidoscopic swirl of sex and exploitation, selfhood and self-destruction, this lost classic is an unnervingly contemporary depiction of the collision between identity, freedom and female desire - perfect for fans of In the Cut, Oreo, Luster and I'm a Fan.
'Fish Tales will certainly dazzle you, and it might even scandalize you, but it never tells a lie' ANGELA FLOURNOY
'A novel of desire, pleasure, drugs and sex . . . We'll all be better for it having been rediscovered' LITERARY HUB
'Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a panther . . . Unlike anything I've ever read' New York Times Book Review
'A cult classic . . . [A] sharp, fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart' The Atlantic
'A burst of authentic energy, a rush of life from start to finish' Chicago Review of Books
'An unsparing portrait of sexual hedonism . . . a meditation on female sexuality and the cost of pursuing freedom without self-preservation' TLS