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  • Published: 18 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197579
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99

Big Giant Floating Head




A masterful new novel brings us more of the "strange brilliance" that has captivated readers

"Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive." —George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

A WILDLY INVENTIVE, HEARTBREAKING, AND HILARIOUS NEW NOVEL ABOUT A MAN WHOSE LIFE IS FALLING APART . . . IN VERY BIZARRE WAYS . . .
After his wife announces on Twitter that she's leaving him, Christopher's life in small-town Coolidge just goes from one catastrophe to another. He contracts a strange illness that divides him in half, undergoes a failure competition, and is driven to join a cult called The Unloveables. How did it all get this bad? How can he regain his bearings, and find meaning and love once again?

Heartfelt and riotously imaginative, Big Giant Floating Head is the daring, dazzling account of a man’s struggle with love, loss and redemption.

  • Published: 18 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197579
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99

Praise for Big Giant Floating Head

Praise for Golden Delicious and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive:

"What a crazed, beautiful book--Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive." --George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

"... an instruction manual for the human heart....Unforgettable." --Time Out New York (5/5 stars)

"Innovative, addictive, bonkers and beautiful" --Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago

"Writing to save your life is at the heart of this wildly imaginative debut... Readers are in for a fresh, memorable ride..." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"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, The Millions

"Boucher's first novel is one of the most original books you will read this year." --Roxane Gay

"The best kind of modern fiction: inventive, expansive, with endless heart and narrative verve ... This book will restore your belief in the possibility of the novel. 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

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