"Moore, Christopher - Fluke" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moore Christopher)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moore, Christopher, 1957-
Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings / Christopher Moore.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-380-97841-5
1. Human-animal relationships -- Fiction. 2. Midlife crisis -- Fiction.
3. Humpback whale -- Fiction. 4. Whale sounds -- Fiction. 5. Hawaii -- Fiction.
I. Title: Fluke. II Title: I know why the winged whale sings. III Title.
PS3563.O594 F58 2003
813'.54 -- dc21
2002043231

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For Jim Darling, Flip Nicklin,
and Meagan Jones:
extraordinary people who do
extraordinary work



Fluke (flook) 1. A stroke of good luck
2. A chance occurrence; an accident
3. A barb or barbed head, as on a harpoon
4. Either of the two horizontally flattened divisions of the tail of a whale






Contents

PART ONE
The Song

PART TWO
Jonah's People

PART THREE
The Source

Author's Notes
Acknowledgments