Float A Novel edition by JoeAnn Hart Literature Fiction eBooks
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"…witty, profound, and beautifully observed…"
— Margot Livesey
"Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters…the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment."
— Mameve Medwed
"[Float] is all of these things joyful and troubling, hilarious and somber, evocative and introspective."
— Stefanie Freele, Necessary Fiction
When everything around you is sinking, sometimes it takes desperate measures to stay afloat.
When Duncan Leland looks down at the garbage-strewn beach beneath his office window, he sees the words God Help Us scrawled in the sand. While it seems a fitting message—not only is Duncan’s business underwater, but his marriage is drowning as well—he goes down to the beach to erase it. Once there, he helps a seagull being strangled by a plastic six-pack holder—the only creature in worse shape than he is at the moment.
Duncan rescues the seagull, not realizing that he’s being filmed by a group of conceptual artists and that the footage will soon go viral, turning both him and the gull into minor celebrities. And when an unsavory yet very convincing local, Osbert Marpol, talks him into a not-quite-legitimate loan arrangement, Duncan can’t help but agree in a last-ditch attempt to save the jobs of his employees.
For a while, it seems as if things are finally looking up for Duncan—yet between his phone-sex-entrepreneur ex-girlfriend’s very public flirtations and the ever-mysterious terms of his new loan, Duncan realizes that there’s no such thing as strings-free salvation—and that it’s only a matter of time before the tide rises ominously around him again.
A wry tale of financial desperation, conceptual art, insanity, infertility, seagulls, marital crisis, jellyfish, organized crime, and the plight of a plastic-filled ocean, JoeAnn Hart’s novel takes a smart, satirical look at family, the environment, and life in a hardscrabble seaside town in Maine.
Float A Novel edition by JoeAnn Hart Literature Fiction eBooks
Float is a multifaceted gem of New England life. Duncan Leland, called home after his father's death by drowning, is running his family's fish parts processing plant in coastal Maine...running it into the ground. His life is falling apart. His wife has been trying to get pregnant and cannot put up with his dithering dreaminess. His ex high-school girlfriend has her eyes on him again. His business is bankrupt and the only money available comes from a stranger who is undoubtedly connected to the Boston mob.Add to this a mother who lives a nautically themed fantasy life, and has not left her house in several years; and a brother whose main goal in life is fulfilling his mother's sailing fantasies. She is powered by perhaps hallucinogenic mulberry wine which has been marinating in the cellar for several decades. Did I forget the mysterious death of an "installation artist" who disappeared from town 20 years ago?
JoeAnn Hart brings her skills of insight and humor to this whirlwind of relationships, and adds a classic Nor'easter to the mix to get things up and floating. One of the great pleasures of this novel are the minor characters with major issues who swirl around Duncan and his family. Slocum, his best friend, is a chef whose seafood creations represent the edge of culinary experimentation and risk. The employees of the fish parts factory are alternately helpful, or bent on sabotage. Josefa is the addled savior of seagulls, and Osbert the mobster quotes Winston Churchill.
Driven by humor, and propelled by high winds and water, Float is a fine entertainment for a week on the shore, or a loud laugh while reading alone.
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Float A Novel edition by JoeAnn Hart Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
If you love all things nautical or care at all about the planet, life, love and the pursuit of happiness you'll thourogly enjoy this very clever book.
JoeAnn Hart's second novel "Float" is a Nautical themed, clever, satirical examination of modern life with an environmental message that will inspire you to run out and safe some seagulls. The combination of odd, eccentric characters and social commentary is like watching characters from a Kurt Vonnegut or Tom Robbins novel play in the pages of the Great Gatsby. Brilliant!
This is the first book of JoeAnn Hart's that I've read, but it won't be the last. FLOAT has very engaging characters, terrific descriptions of contemporary coastal town life, and is funny and poetic. Pack this one in your vacation bag, or listen to it (hopefully it will be recorded soon!) when you're stuck in traffic.
I love the writing- smart and funny. She pulls you in innocently, takes you for a ride and leaves you deep in thought. And, just when you are on the verge of despair she throws you a lifeline. Her characters become your friends as flawed and endearing as we each are. Bravo to Ms. Hart for addressing life's issues in a way that we can be entertained, educated and mindful of the future. Read "Addled" too - a different kind of delight but equally engaging.
I read "Float" while on a long plane ride, and the time flew by. Hart is a very good writer with a sly sense of humor. The story takes the reader right into the setting--how I'd love to see the octagonal house with the map painted on the floor! I recommend both "Float" and Hart's previous book, "Addled."
Although not quite as hilarious as her previous novel 'Addled', I much enjoyed this book. I recommend it to readers who enjoy comedies of manners with a quirky ironic sense of humor. I hope she continues to write more books for my reading enjoyment. I recommend her novels if you want something a little out of the ordinary. Unpredictable, thought-provoking, odd and a little heartwarming.
The book is well enough written and could make an interesting read. However it is choppy as if several stories had been put together. That in itself is not my major concern but the fact that it is a vehicle for anti-pollution of the oceans. I certainly applaud books that deals with the environment and safeguarding it, but I don't like to have it rammed into my throat on every page. It shouldn't be the prime protagonist of the novel, and that's what it is in Float.
Float is a multifaceted gem of New England life. Duncan Leland, called home after his father's death by drowning, is running his family's fish parts processing plant in coastal Maine...running it into the ground. His life is falling apart. His wife has been trying to get pregnant and cannot put up with his dithering dreaminess. His ex high-school girlfriend has her eyes on him again. His business is bankrupt and the only money available comes from a stranger who is undoubtedly connected to the Boston mob.
Add to this a mother who lives a nautically themed fantasy life, and has not left her house in several years; and a brother whose main goal in life is fulfilling his mother's sailing fantasies. She is powered by perhaps hallucinogenic mulberry wine which has been marinating in the cellar for several decades. Did I forget the mysterious death of an "installation artist" who disappeared from town 20 years ago?
JoeAnn Hart brings her skills of insight and humor to this whirlwind of relationships, and adds a classic Nor'easter to the mix to get things up and floating. One of the great pleasures of this novel are the minor characters with major issues who swirl around Duncan and his family. Slocum, his best friend, is a chef whose seafood creations represent the edge of culinary experimentation and risk. The employees of the fish parts factory are alternately helpful, or bent on sabotage. Josefa is the addled savior of seagulls, and Osbert the mobster quotes Winston Churchill.
Driven by humor, and propelled by high winds and water, Float is a fine entertainment for a week on the shore, or a loud laugh while reading alone.
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