TCFL00-33 Tad Crawford - A Floating Life.nfo
General Information
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Title: A Floating Life: A Novel
Author: Tad Crawford
Read By: Phil Kane
Copyright: 2012
Audiobook Copyright: 2013
Genre: Fiction - Literary - Fantasy
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapterized - lossless
Source: Audible Enhanced
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 33
Total Duration: 6:49:09
Total MP3 Size: 187.68
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: iTunes
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Audible Editor Reviews
Lovers of fiction have to trust the story as told. Following the tradition
of Kafka and Marquez, author Tad Crawford thrusts his audience into
a magical realm in A Floating Life. A man awakens in another time, unsure
of his own identity. He is married to a woman he does not know, is at
odds with a dog, cannot achieve an erection, and does not know how to
get by in his new environment. The aged Pecheur is a maker of miniature
narrator to take possession of his life. A crop of odd characters and
straight-man narration pulls the listener in.
Publisher's Summary
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
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