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Firmin

Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

by Sam Savage

2006 151 pages eng ★ 3.0 (3 ratings)

*Firmin* is an autobiography of a rat born, "with my eyes wide open", as the 13th child to an alcoholic mother rat with 12 nipples in the basement of a Boston bookshop in Scollay Square on November 9, 1960. As a result, Firmin the runt puts off the pangs of hunger by consuming *Finnegans Wake,* his …

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