The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington

by Garrett Epps

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395377021
• ISBN13: 9780395377024
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Satire - applicable now more than ever

I found "Floating Island" several years ago on the bargain table at a bookstore. I enjoyed it very much, and am reminded of it every election season. This book is written in the flavor of Joeseph Heller's "Catch-22" in which the illogics of politics and elections are exaggerated to their illogic extremes. Although this type of literature doesn't have to be realistic, the 2008 election season makes this book less unrealistic than ever. If you are a political junkie, you'll laugh out loud on every page. If you are a fan of poilitics and political campaigns, you should read it.

A Wonderful Farce

In The Floating Island, Epps attempts to do for our time what Swift did for his own--in fact, he uses epigraphs from Gulliver's Travels throughout the book. At times sad, at times silly but always funny and interesting, this is a must read for anyone who doesn't take the posturing in Washington too seriously.

Puts Washington amusingly in its place.

This novel has one of the best beginning paragraphs I have read. It may seem like a farce but in truth it tells how things don't work in the nation's capital. Many very funny scenes