Bob, or Man on Boat
By Peter Markus
2008
First Published
4.39
Average Rating
142
Number of Pages
“Markus has a remarkable ability to strip life down to its basics, to the point where the metaphors we manufacture as the looking-glass for our existence end up standing in for existence itself. Fish, mud, night and river come to stand in place of family connections as fathers and sons, by giving themselves to fishing give themselves over to a lone search and to loss.”—Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain Peter Markus has published three story collections and lives in Michigan.
Avg Rating
4.39
Number of Ratings
122
5 STARS
52%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
8%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Peter Markus
Author · 7 books
Peter Markus is the author of a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as five other books of fiction, the most recent of which is The Fish and the Not Fish, a Michigan Notable Book of 2015. His fiction has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including Chicago Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, among many others. He was awarded a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship in 2012 and has taught for 20 years as a writer-in-residence with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project.
