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In Passionate Spectator, memoirist Peter Leroy and his wife Albertine are living by the skin of their teeth in Manhattan. Casting about for a source of income, Peter purchases a book from a homeless peddler, Creative Self-Promotion for Taxidermists, hoping he can adapt its techniques to promote his fledgling business: Memoirs While You Wait. That book opens into a beguiling journey from fiction to truth and back again, involving Peter, his childhood friend Matthew Barber (who is undergoing emergency heart surgery), and Peter's witty, urbane alter-ego, Bertram W. Beath--an erotic opportunist and "passionate spectator"of life's pageant.
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Praise for Eric Kraft:
"Lovely...we're hooked. Kraft's erudite asides and abstract musings are what make Inflating a Dog fascinating and sophisticated reading."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Having trouble reading Proust? Forget it. Read Eric Kraft instead...the eight volumes of Kraft's fictional memoirs...constitute perhaps the most ambitious and rewarding literary enterprise of our time."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Charming but never sappy, droll but never cynical...the literary equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing: great art that looks like fun."
- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"A sunny, upbeat American version of the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges...A masterful tale teller."
- Mark Ciabattari, Washington Post Book World
"Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?"
- Publishers Weekly
"The only American author since Pynchon to completely erase the line between the literary novel and the spit-out-your coffee comedy."
- Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post
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"Lovely...we're hooked. Kraft's erudite asides and abstract musings are what make Inflating a Dog fascinating and sophisticated reading."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Having trouble reading Proust? Forget it. Read Eric Kraft instead...the eight volumes of Kraft's fictional memoirs...constitute perhaps the most ambitious and rewarding literary enterprise of our time."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Charming but never sappy, droll but never cynical...the literary equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing: great art that looks like fun."
- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
"A sunny, upbeat American version of the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges...A masterful tale teller."
- Mark Ciabattari, Washington Post Book World
"Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?"
- Publishers Weekly
"The only American author since Pynchon to completely erase the line between the literary novel and the spit-out-your coffee comedy."
- Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post
Eric Kraft is the author of nine novels, including Inflating a Dog and Leaving Small's Hotel. He and his wife recently moved from New York City to St. Petersburg, Florida.
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- Publication date2005
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- ISBN 13 9780312424848
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