Whalefall is a mind-blowing, take-your-breath-away adventure, but it’s also a tender and moving story of the relationship between a father and son. It's the type of novel that should have been a solid, well crafted meal but, as per usual with mass market blockbusters, ultimately shows us it's nothing but spoonfed pablum. A moving and evocative piece, “Whalefall” invites readers to consider their own trips through life’s erratic currents long after the final page is turned. Unfortunately, for me at least, it feels like it was written to be a formulaic character arc for Jay to accept his father for who he was, while giving the reader a claustrophobic, yet cinematic feel-good story that could easily be sold to a major motion picture studio as the next Tom Holland vehicle. Added EPs Abate and Rowbotham: “ Whalefall is a story that stays with you after you turn the last page.

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Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. Each chapter is either titled with a reading on his air tank, to tell you how much air Jay has left, or a year, marking a flash back. Not the whale's stomach, although that was uncomfortable, but a message of 'maybe if the relentlessly bullied kid had just appreciated his bullying father a bit more he'd have seen he was a decent guy deep down who loved him really and maybe he was wrong not to forgive this man who made him so miserable he ran away from home at 15, and hey his tough love saved your life', which. Arts Entertainment‘s Richard Abate and Will Rowbotham will serve as exec producers alongside Imagine. I read the gorgeous hard cover while riding the train to work and the e-book while walking (living dangerously!

The author does an amazing job with making you feel like you are right there in the belly of the whale with him. Why a whale would ever swallow a person, and how that person could survive the living hell of its innards were other questions.

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Some time later, Jay finds himself at Monastery Beach, a place in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

To be honest, I think the only other book I’ve ever read about someone being swallowed by a whale was Job in the Bible. I think if you let yourself just sink into this one, let the story wash over you and really feel it, this could be an equally powerful read for you. Jay’s internal monologue reveals his struggle to make sense of the conflict between the father he knew and the father he believed he ought to have. The idea here is, of course, to develop Whalefall for the big screen, at the point when Hollywood is again back up and running. Whalefall is, quite simply, a beautiful novel - a must-read story of the sea, the nature of awe, and the briny relationships between fathers and sons.