Book Description:
In his debut novel, Tad Crawford tells of a nameless narrator who, following a harrowing job interview in a steam room, leaves his youthful dreams behind, 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 unsatisfied 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— if not by the golden bars of a sub-basement apartment offered for rent.
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 the ocean, the narrator begins to find his bearings.
With quiet humor and wisdom, ‘A Floating Life’ charts its course among images that surprise and disorient. In this urban fantasy, bears cavort in caves in New York’s Central Park, a man can enjoy the pleasures of breast-feeding his own child, and WWII isn’t completely over for some.
‘A Floating Life’ is a rollicking, unforgettable, and inventive journey—and it is also a source of insight, solace, and inspiration.
About Tad Crawford:
Tad Crawford grew up in the artists’ colony of Woodstock, New York. He is the author of many nonfiction books and has appeared in venues such as Art in America, The Café Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, The Nation, and Writer’s Digest. Crawford is the founder and publisher of Allworth Press, and lives in New York City.
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