Floating

by Robin Troy

Book Overview

Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway to somewhere else. But for twenty-five-year-old Ruby Pearson, there is nowhere else. With husband in jail and an eight-year-old son at home, Ruby knows what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671024493
• ISBN13: 9780671024499
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: MTV Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Floating

This book was awesome. Troy is an incredible writer and has a totally different and refreshing style. At least five times during the book I said "wow" and reread the paragraph or sentence. A great read from start to finish!

GREAT BOOK!

Robin Troy definitely knows how to describe things in great detail. I had to read a book for a book report and I am glad I chose this one. I couldn't put the book down sometimes. I recommend this book to anyone!

Excellent!

This was a great little book...my only wish was that it was longer. I look forward to the next one from this new author..she seems to be on the right track to something great.

Damn good first novel; Fresh voice, authentically American

Just a DAMN GOOD novel! Solid entertainment in a well-spun tale. This story is a real page-turner! AND THIS comes from someone completely removed from and disinterested in modern cowboys and small-town tales -- but Ms. Troy has a clear, fresh voice -- her words are magic and I not only found myself transported, but also caring intensely about the adventures of Sean, Ruby, and her son. This is one of those rare authors with that seemingly magical ability to render flesh and blood from paper and ink. Her characters are so believable that, for all I know, they might as well be real. Ms. Troy looks into their souls and then reveals what she sees in a story of the most delightfully-torturous suspense. The plain, crisp style she uses to tell her story not only captures the mood, time, and place of the dry, arid, and beautiful sliver of America in which it is set, but also disguises. By massaging the reader into a sharp focus on the people and events of the story, the underlying world view and wisdom of the author is properly masked and allowed to be the invisible hand that carries the reader and the story to an exciting climax that is totally unanticipated, yet somehow forever true. And SUCH wisdom from someone Sooo young! So unexpected! So wonderful! So deep within her must beat a very old soul.How else could she write with the restraint that so many of her contemporaries lack? While her peers feel some benighted compulsion to leave their own messy footprints all over the page, Ms. Troy has so thoroughly and unobtrusively incorporated her themes and messages into her characters and story that her novel is strong enough to stand on its own. She makes no blatant and/or jarring intrusions into her own book because she doesn't need to - Ms. Troy, as author, becomes the story and thus allows the story to become the reader's. KEEP your EYE on this author! This is ONLY her FIRST novel! A first novel that is better than most people's third. I wait for what dreams may come.

This Book Smokes!

I got an advanced copy at work left in my mailbox.Glad I did. This book smoked from the first page to the last. Jay Marvinauthor of Punk Blood