{"product_id":"afloat-9781590172599","title":"Afloat","description":"\u003ci\u003eAfloat, \u003c\/i\u003eoriginally published as \u003ci\u003eSur l'eau \u003c\/i\u003ein 1888, 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 and documentation in a wholly original style. 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-happily but forever precariously-afloat. \u003ci\u003eAfloat\u003c\/i\u003e is thus a book that in both content and form courts risk while setting out to chart the meaning, and limits, of freedom, a book that makes itself up as it goes along and in doing so proves as startling and compellingly vital as the paintings of Maupassant's contemporaries van Gogh and Gauguin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.04w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2009 pg. 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2009 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Guy de Maupassant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43150335213749,"sku":"9781590172599","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f23c368a-a678-49b0-bbb3-d189887b141e.jpg?v=1696346379","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/afloat-9781590172599","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}