Fishguts

By Petta, Joseph, E.

Book Id: WPLBN0100304560
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 6/6/2023

Title:	Fishguts
Author:	Petta, Joseph, E.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature
Collections:	Authors Community, Literature
Historic Publication Date:	2023
Publisher:	Cannerypress

Member Page:	Joseph Petta
Citation APA MLA Chicago E. Pett, B. J. (2023). Fishguts. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Fishguts is highly experimental in form as it follows the function of the cannery, mechanically synthesizing original content with creatively transformed material. The seamless interaction of words, numbers, and symbology explores text as art and artifact. This book is suitable for mature readers seeking a challenge, those who are curious about cannery life and operations, and those who might be interested in seeing a unique sliver of the world from an authentic neurodivergent perspective.

Summary
Inside every empty fish is a story. What compels people to travel thousands of miles to a remote Alaska salmon cannery where the pay is low and the working conditions difficult, and why do so many of them return year after year? Cannery worker #4448 is on a quest to answer this question through the systematic accumulation of information at the canning rate of one fish every two seconds; this includes descriptions of cannery life and processes, interviews of cannery workers and other fish-related people, myriad data from all points, and personal observations. Time and miles wear on, salmon seasons come and go, humans process fish, and fish process humans in a never-ending cycle of mutual dependency. After decades of research, has The Fishmachine Documentary Project brought 4448 any closer to an answer?