"The climax resolves all satisfyingly and surprisingly. The elements of the picaresque and magic realism, blended with quirky, surreal humor, should appeal to readers with a taste for the literary and the strange.”
—Booklist
“Odd, offbeat, and strangely shimmering.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"[Crawford's] refreshing style brings surprise and fun back into fiction.”
—New York Journal of Books
“Tad Crawford is an utterly fearless writer who will and does go wherever his wonderfully anarchic imagination takes him.”
—Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom
“Through this fantastical saga of privation, like Odysseus’s voyage with homecoming, like Dante’s tour without a guide or a Beatrice, Crawford’s narrator recounts his amazing adventures in a mesmerizing diction of long-suffering cool.”
—Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., author of Old Money
“By turns charming and ominous, whimsical and philosophical, A Floating Life is a multilayered shape-shifting miracle of a first novel.”
—Melvin Jules Bukiet, author of Strange Fire
“Equal parts science fiction, magic realism, and hard-boiled detective story, A Floating Life is a dizzying journey . . . a seamless, spellbinding narrative in the lineage of Borges, Castañeda, and Philip K. Dick.”
—Kenneth Goldsmith, author of I'll Be Your Mirror and Uncreative Writing
“A haunting, unusual, sui generis, and wonderfully sustained novel that also manages to be hilarious. I loved it.”
—Nick Lyons, author of Spring Creek
A Floating Life
A Novel
