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Afloat is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream, polemic, and documentation in a wholly original manner. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, nature, and society all find a place in Maupassant's pages, which are, in conception and in effect, so many reflections of the fluid sea on which he finds himself-at once happily and precariously-afloat. Afloat courts risk in both form and content, making itself up as it goes along. As a work of art, it is as fresh and startling as the paintings of Maupassant's great contemporaries van Gogh and Gauguin.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: Afloat
• Author: Guy De Maupassant
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9781590172599
• ISBN: 1590172590
• ID: 04236715
• Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Weight: 144 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. April 2008

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