{"product_id":"afloat-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"Afloat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfloat\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published as\u003cem\u003e Sur l’eau\u003c\/em\u003e in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumorous 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfloat\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Douglas Parmee.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guy De Maupassant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45671288111151,"sku":"9781590172599","price":1499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781590172599.jpg?v=1784990872","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/afloat-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}