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Afloat

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ISBN-10: 1590172590

ISBN-13: 9781590172599

Edition: 2008

Authors: Guy de Maupassant, Douglas Parm�e, Douglas Parmee

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Afloat,originally published asSur l’eauin 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.Afloatis thus a book that in both content and form…    
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 4/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 4.96" wide x 8.00" long x 0.26" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English