Big Giant Floating Head by Christopher Boucher - ISBN: 9781612197579
Paperback

Big Giant Floating Head

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    18 June 2019

Summary

A masterful new novel brings us more of the “strange brilliance” that has captivated readers.From the wildly inventive author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and Golden Delicious comes a new novel unlike anything you have ever read. “Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive.” –George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo Suddenly, everything becomes slippery; A man grows a wall inside himself; A bookstore owner meets a woman with an invisible dog; hearts take …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781612197579
ISBN-10:1612197574
Author:Christopher Boucher
Publisher:Melville House Publishing
Imprint:Melville House Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:18 June 2019
Weight:232g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

PRAISE FOR BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD

“Chris Boucher’s Big Giant Floating Head plays by an improbable logic all its own, and is heartbreaking and hilarious in the manner of Brautigan and Flann O’Brien, or a Krazy Kat comic redrawn by M.C. Escher.” – Jonathan Lethem

“This is a novel of mad vitality, much invention, and serious fun.”—Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane, winner of the IMPAC Literary Award

“Hilarious, dark and stunningly surreal. ..This novel will surprise and delight, make you laugh out loud even as it breaks your heart.”—Mona Awad, author of Bunny

PRAISE FOR GOLDEN DELICIOUS
“What a crazed, beautiful book … Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive.” —George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

“A master of evoking compassion through absurd, shape-shifting land-scapes … As wacky as it is recognizable, Boucher’s capricious world filled with delightful wordplay is strikingly vivid, funny, and moving.” —Booklist

“Infused with a strange brilliance …;Funny, and also deeply, improbably moving.“—The Millions

“Christopher Boucher’s Golden Delicious is the best kind of modern fiction: inventive, expansive, with endless heart and narrative verve… Read this book now.” —Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned

“Bonkers, in the best way…The beauty of Boucher’s concept is that Golden Delicious can afford to be an utter hodgepodge peppered with nearly inexplicable happenings and still make an elegant sort of sense.” —Electric Literature

Golden Delicious, is probably like nothing you’ve ever read…Boucher writes simultaneously very seriously and with a palpable sense of delight in words and also in the world. It’s delicious.” —The Rumpus

“An odd, clever, and thoroughly enjoyable experience.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

PRAISE FOR HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE

“Strange and dazzling … Through all the insanity and dizzying leaps of logic that make up Boucher’s world are a series of absolutely human and recognizable truths.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

“Boucher’s first novel is one of the most original books you will read this year.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist

“As moving as it is fun, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is definitely the next book you should read.” —Adam Levin, author of The Instructions

About The Author

Christopher Boucher

CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER is author of the widely praised novels Golden Delicious and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. He teaches literature and writing at Boston College and edits the literary journal Post Road. He lives with his wife and two children in Newton, MA.

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