{"product_id":"afloat-guy-de-maupassant-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guy de Maupassant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590172590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Guy de Maupassant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190815912191,"sku":"9781590172599","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21df047e-0265-4c66-abee-1ca44fe0616f.jpg?v=1690872521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/afloat-guy-de-maupassant-9781590172599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}