The Eel – a literary obsession
Writer Jack Fingon realizes too late that his life of “intuition and attraction” has produced little to value, and nothing to remember. To settle a piece of unfinished business, Fingon devises a plan to fulfill the testamentary wish of French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars – to be buried in the Sargasso Sea where “life first burst from the depths of the ocean floor towards the sun.”
“David MacKinnon in The Eel channels a seamless collaboration between Lawrence Durrell and Ernest Hemingway, with prose that will haunt, startle, and yes, entertain you.”
– Joe Hartlaub, senior reviewer at New York’s Book Reporter
“The Eel is an adventure story, a mystery, a tale of intrigue that like the fish itself twists and turns and changes colours. And it originates, quite literally, at the source of all Life.”
– Jim Christy, poet vagabond, novelist and sculptor