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Floating Island: Paul Awakens (Fixing Things) Paperback – January 25, 2018

by Arthur Allen Crummer (Author), Art Crummer (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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In a sleepy North Central Florida town, Paul Bradley’s life is adrift as disturbing rumors compel him onto his beloved Lake Lacuna. His canoe capsizes near an island. He struggles to shore and sleeps on a sand bar by a misty swamp. At dawn the nearby island is gone. Two weeks later his wife disappears. A fisherman finds blood-soaked parts of her shredded clothes floating in the dark, gator-infested water. Paul’s life is changing. Strange encounters. Under surveillance. Missing journals. Reality is an enigma. He survives a brain operation and must take charge of his life, stop drifting, face himself, and start life anew. His boyhood pal from twenty years ago turns up to help. Things are looking up.And then the phone rings...
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    355 pages
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    English
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    January 25, 2018
  4. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.74 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1548921017
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1548921019
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 25, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 355 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1548921017
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1548921019
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.74 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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Anina Karmen
5.0 out of 5 stars Mickey & Paul: come back!
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019
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This book was recommended to me, so I took a break from The New Yorker, which comes out weekly, figuring, ok, I'll let them pile up hopelessly (I'm a slow reader) and read Floating Island. A few days later, this slow reader was hurting, yearning for more time with big-hearted Mickey and perplexed, complicated Paul. I miss them. The point is, "couldn't put it down" for once turned out to be a really apt cliche. Buy this book. Read this book.
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Julie Warmke
4.0 out of 5 stars Quirky Southern voices and mystery
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2020
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Floating Island is a deep dive into the quirky characters and voices of a small Florida town. It’s also a mystery with surprises right up to the end. The main character, Paul, is a hardware store owner who is a closet philosopher who likes to think in terms of cosmology and theoretical physics. His wife, Denise, is a maddeningly self-absorbed hypocrite who gives Mrs. Malaprop a run for her money when it comes to misusing words and phrases. She’s a fantastic Faulknerian creation. The author does a wonderful job conveying character through thought processes and language. Each voice is distinct. The cast of characters is as varied as you would find in a small Southern town. The descriptions of nature are particularly lyrical. The style is experimental but well worth the effort.
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Beth-Anne Blue
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast turns and flexibility...
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2020
FLOATING ISLAND: Awakening Paul Bradley, the second book in Art Crummer’s trilogy continues to reflect loosely on his own life and adventures. My wife and I like to read aloud together each day over lunch which permits at least one of us to keep a foot on the floor, a stabilizing requirement for those who tackle Crummer’s writings.

His first book in the trilogy, WRESTLING GOD, covered the boyhood misadventures of Paul and his best friend Mickey in small town North Carolina. It has been described as “a 1950’s Huck Finn meets Holden Caulfield.” Book 2 takes place in north central Florida and reads like a mid-life crisis for Paul, who is attempting to secretly write his autobiography.

Crummer’s work is well-written and shows his gift for fast turns and flexibility in style. He even resorts to stepping away from the action now and again to give Paul tutorials on writing. His casualness is appealing especially when he includes hand-written ‘notes to self’ and ‘publisher’s note to author’ as if they were found objects. Penciled sketches by Crummer pleasantly illustrate the various settings in this fictional memoir.

Sadly, FLOATING ISLAND comes to an end (it actually comes to an end twice!). And, as if to entice us to be on the lookout for Book 3, Crummer gives a rough draft of it to a minor character, Francine, a waitress at Penny’s Pizza, in the closing pages of the second ending to this book. As soon as Francine finishes reading it I guess we’ll all get to tackle it. No doubt it will be as delightful a read as Book 1 and Book 2 have been.

Ron Haase
Author of THE LAST HOUSE: A Love Story about Architecture and Place
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S. H. Baxter
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprising twists and turns
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018
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Of Crummer’s first novel, Wrestling God, I wrote, “Eight-year-old Paul Bradley hooked me on page one . . . . [His] Appalachian voice feels as authentic as Frank McCourt’s Irish lilt in Angela’s Ashes.” That novel felt so personal that I thought I was reading a memoir, which is the genre I prefer. Crummer’s dialog in Floating Island is, likewise, so realistic that I felt as if I were eavesdropping on private conversations of the adult Paul Bradley and his good friend who steps in to help. I would have preferred fewer points of view, but the surprising twists and turns in the tale compelled me to turn the pages faster and faster to see what astounding revelation would come next.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this book.
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2018
Great book, a real page turner. Looking forward to future work.
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