Going to See the Elephant

Fishburne, Rodes

ISBN 10: 038534239X / ISBN 13: 9780385342391

Published by G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 2009

About this Item

Description: This copy is Signed and dated (January 17, 2009) by the author on the title page. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with gilt spine text; lightly bumped at the bottom spine, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 293 pages.

Seller Inventory # 057492

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Going to See the Elephant
• Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038534239X
• ISBN 13: 9780385342391
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Fiction

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Synopsis

On a windy September day, twenty-five-year-old Slater Brown stands in the back of a bicycle taxi hurtling the wrong way down the busiest street in San Francisco. Slater has come to “see the elephant,” to stake his claim to fame and become the greatest writer ever. But this city of gleaming water and infinite magic has other plans in this astounding first novel—at once a love story, a feast of literary imagination, and a dazzlingly original tale of passion, ambition, and genius in all their guises...

Slater Brown lays siege to San Francisco like Achilles circling Troy—until he crashes headlong into reality. Out of money and prospects, he applies for a job at a moribund weekly newspaper called the Morning Trumpet—and, as if by fate, is given a very special parting gift from a moonlighting mystic.

Suddenly Slater has an exclusive on every story in the city. With his uncanny knack for finding scoops, he’s bringing the Trumpet back to life, infuriating a corrupt mayor and falling in love with the woman destined to become his muse. But it is the astonishing inventor Milo Magnet—a man obsessed with harnessing the weather—who will force Slater to navigate the most dangerous straits.

For as Milo unleashes his power on San Francisco and the ravishing Callio de Quincy entrances Slater with hers, as storm clouds gather literally overhead, Slater will become at once a pawn, a savior, and the last best hope for a city that needs him—and his knack for the truth—more than ever before.

About the Author

Rodes Fishburne has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the acclaimed “Big Issue,” an annual magazine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers. He is a member of the Grotto, a San Francisco writers’ collective. Going to See the Elephant is his first novel.