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Title	:	Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Author	:	Sam Savage
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 162 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2006 by Coffee House Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Writing. Books About Books. Humor. Animals

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

Sam Savage

Paperback | Pages: 162 pages

Rating: 3.5 | 6153 Users | 787 Reviews

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Firmin is a rat born in a book (a shredded copy of Finneggans Wake), who finds the books he consumes also consume his soul. He becomes a vagabond and philosopher, struggling with mortality and meaning.

In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home is on the verge of annihilation.

A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful, Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page.

First published by Coffee House Press in 2006. Republished by Delta, a division of Random House, in 2009.

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Original Title:	Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
ISBN:	1566891817 (ISBN13: 9781566891813)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mama Flo, Norman Shine , Jerry Magoon, Firmin
Setting:	Boston, Massachusetts(United States)
Literary Awards:	Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee for Adult Fiction (2007)

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The main character is a rat. A rat who suffers from despair because he can never be more than a rat. A rat who reads to escape his existence. A rat who imagines and creates fantasies in order to survive his undesired lot in life. If you are a person who cannot handle anthropomorphism, try and read the book as metaphor for the outsiders/others that live on the fringes of civilized societies.

Sam Savages wildly original novel, the story of a rat born on a copy of Finnegans Wake in a Boston bookstore, is a tender, beautiful gift to bibliophiles! Unlike his siblings who feast on the pages of books in blissful ignorance, Firmin not only consumes the books surrounding him in his birthplace, but also becomes consumed by them their thoughts, their words, and their ideas. He has the gift of lexical hypertrophy, but is, unfortunately, trapped by the physical limitations of being a rat. His

I liked this book, but I didn't feel fully engaged by it. This book wasn't what I expected, it was a lot stranger and more adult than I had expected. I found the book rather funny at times and Firmin was quite a charming character, but I was getting less enthralled throughout the book. An interesting book and a good idea, but it's something that wore off on me. Definitely worth it for a quick read and a new reading experience.

so i bought this years ago and hadnt read it. and then the new, even cuter edition came out so i had to get it again, but actually read it this time because i am a sucker for cool book design. and im glad, because its not a cute book, despite its illustrations and little ratbite. its more sad than cute, and it is definitely not for kids. and i am a grown up!! (she says, eating all the candy from the basket daddy sent for easter...)

Okay, it's about a rat who reads (and eats) books and has an active fantasy life. Weird as it sounds, I loved this book. If anything, it was just too sad (given the topic, really, that makes sense, but it hit some of my particular buttons right now). I had trouble reading it at times (and it's really short) due to that fact. It's not all dark, though, and while I'm not sure about the ending, but I actually think I'll be thinking about this book for a while and the chacter of Firmin in

This is, without a doubt, one of the most unusual books I've ever read. At first glance, I thought it was a childrens book. It's definitely NOT a childrens book. It's an adult novel about...a rat. This rat, Firmin, identifies with humans more than other rats. This is due to the fact that as a baby, and as the runt of the litter, he had to turn to eating books because he couldn't compete with his bigger, greedier brothers and sisters for food. Ingesting these books caused him to learn how to

There is some genius behind this story, but unfortunately, it is a genius I do not fully appreciate. What started out as a desire to read a grown-up version of Ratatouille, turned into a much more contemplative Kafka Metamorphosis-esque narrative about literally being a low-life (a rodent) surrounded by humans occupying the same social status. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy parts of it. The author can comment a lot on the true nature of humans by disguising it as natural animal rat instinct -