Eric Kraft

Eric Kraft has taught school, written textbooks, and was the co-captain of a clam boat, which sank. He was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He lives in New Rochelle, New York, with his wife, Madeline.

 


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Flying
Flying

Eric Kraft
Picador

Critics have compared him to Proust, Pynchon, and Fred Astaire--an artful, slyly intelligent, wildly inventive observer of Americana. Now Eric Kraft has landed...


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On the Wing
On the Wing

Eric Kraft
St. Martin's Press

In Taking Off, the first installment of Eric Kraft’s beguiling trilogy, Peter Leroy built an aerocycle in his parents’ garage, working from designs he found in...


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Taking Off
Taking Off

Eric Kraft
Picador

It was fifty years ago that young Peter Leroy unintentionally pulled a fast one on the people of Babbington, New York. With a design ripped from the pages of...


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Passionate Spectator
Passionate Spectator

Eric Kraft
Picador

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,...


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At Home with the Glynns
At Home with the Glynns

Eric Kraft
Picador

In At Home with the Glynns, Peter Leroy again sets off down memory lane through his boyhood Babbington, Long Island. This time Peter tells of his relationship...


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Reservations Recommended
Reservations Recommended

Eric Kraft
Picador

Reservations Recommended is many things: a satire of the critical mind; a dark commentary on contemporary culture; a story of midlife crisis; a morality play;...


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Herb 'N' Lorna
Herb 'N' Lorna

Eric Kraft
Picador

On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside...


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The Little Follies
The Little Follies

Eric Kraft
Picador

In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a...


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Where Do You Stop?
Where Do You Stop?

Eric Kraft
Picador

"Where do you stop?" is the question posed by Miss Rheingold, the intoxicating new teacher of Peter Leroy's junior high school class. That question forms the...


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