Bibliographical Description
86.04.W020: Johnson – Fiskadoro
DENIS JOHNSON | [four wavy horizontal lines 2.2 x 8.6 cm] | FISKA [wavy two-line hyphen 0.3 x 0.4 cm] | DORO | [six wavy horizontal lines 4.5 x 8.6 cm] | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, April 1986
120 leaves, pp. [10] 1–4 5-113 114–116 117-155 156–158 159-221 [9] [only odd-numbered pages numbered from 5-113, 117-155, 159-221]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO BY DENIS JOHNSON”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blanks, π5a acknowledgments, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-221 Fiskadoro, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ3b Vintage Contemporaries list, χ4a blank, χ4b blank, χ5a blank, χ5b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Vincent McGroary.
Copyright: ©1985. ISBN: 0-394-74367-9. Price: $6.95. Fiskadoro was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) A leap of the imagination…stunningly delivered. – front page, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
- A mythical story…a coming-of-nuclear-age tale, the making of a new man from the ashes of the old world…a key to the conundrum at the center of the world. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
- A marvelous book, beautifully written and constantly entertaining…With it Johnson firmly establishes his place as one of our very best contemporary writers. He is a wonderful storyteller, and if at times Fiskadoro seems a mixture of Samuel Beckett, Phillip K. Dick and Road Warrior, that is only to his credit. – The Washington Post
- Haunting…an eerie and powerful visionary novel. – The Boston Globe
- Wildly ambitious…the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, ‘The Waste Land, ‘ Fahrenheit 451 and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones….Its strange, hallucinatory vision of America and modern history is never less than compelling. – The New York Times
- Johnson, a poet and the author of an earlier novel, Angels, is a compelling storyteller who makes his nightmare scenario rich and sensuous, frightening and then grimly hopeful. – People