Fup - Jim Dodge

Start With Granddaddy Jake Santee, A Cantankerous, Ninety-nine-year-old Coot With A Taste For Gambling And Whiskey; Add In Tiny, His Gentle Giant Of An Adopted Grandson, Whose Passion For Building Well-crafted Fences On Land With No Livestock Borders On Obsessive; Then Add Fup, A Twenty-pound Mallard With An Iron Will And A Fondness For Hooch And Romantic Movies. What Do You Get? You Get Fupmdash;a Wildly Eccentric Modern Classic That Invites You To Sit A Spell And Wet Your Whistle While It Regales You With Tales Of Teaching Fup To Fly, The Sunday Morning Pig Hunt, And The Great Checker Showdown Of '78.