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A Floating Life
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A Floating Life Hardback - 2012

by Tad Crawford

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A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries. His relationship deepens with an elderly Dutch model maker named Pecheur whose miniature boats are erratically offered for sale in a hard-to-find shop called The Floating World. Enlivened by Pecheur's dream to tame the destructive forces of nature, the narrator begins to find his bearings. With quiet humor and wisdom, A Floating Life charts its course among images that surprise and disorient, such as a job interview in a steam room with a one-eyed, seven-foot-tall chef, a midnight intrusion of bears, and the narrator's breast feeding of the baby he has birthed.

"Equal parts science fiction, magic realism, and hard-boiled detective story, A Floating Life is a dizzying journey . . . a seamless, spellbinding narrative in the lineage of Borges, Castaneda, and Philip K. Dick."--Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing

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  • Title A Floating Life
  • Author Tad Crawford
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition NL
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Arcade Publishing, USA
  • Publication date 2012-09
  • ISBN 9781611457025 / 1611457025
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (20.57 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Dixon
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Magic realism (Literature)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012024097
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2012, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2012, Page 34

About the author

Tad Crawford grew up in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. He is the author of many nonfiction books and his writing has appeared in venues such as Art in America, the Caf Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, the Nation, and Writer's Digest. The founder and publisher of Allworth Press, he lives in New York City.
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