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Eric Kraft (born 1944) is an American novelist. He is known for his series of novels that make up The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy. Each novel tells of some aspect of the fictional Leroy's life. Several are supposed to have been written by Leroy. The Personal History, Adventures and Observations of Peter Leroy Premise Kraft's website describes the series: "The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy is one large work of fiction composed of many interconnected parts. Its parts are the memoirs and collected works of a fictional character, Peter Leroy, who tells an alternative version of his life story; explores the effect of imagination on perception, memory, hope, and fear; holds a fun-house mirror to scenes of life in the United States; ruminates upon the nature of the universe and the role of human consciousness within it; and prods and probes the painful world of time and place in search of the niches where hilarity hides." Works in the series Herb ’n’ Lorna (1989): Peter Leroy reconstructs the lives of his maternal grandparents and their animated erotic jewelry business. Reservations Recommended (1990): Leroy's childhood friend, Matthew Barber, is imagined as an adult. Barber is vice president of a toy company by day and a restaurant reviewer named B.W. Beath by night. Little Follies (1992, a collection of previously published novellas) Where Do You Stop? (1992): Peter must complete a school assignment thirty years late and, in so attempting, revisits his memories of the schoolteacher who challenged him. What a Piece of Work I Am (1993): Ariane is six years older than Peter. She's the ostensible bad girl who works in a clam shack. For a mysterious reasons, she has taken up an unusual theatrical experiment in which she must live her life before a crowd for many years. At Home with the Glynns (1995): Peter revisits the Glynn twins and takes on an unusual job that involves doctoring sketches and hiding a secret. Leaving Small's Hotel (1998): Peter and his wife Albertine, faced with looming costs, attempt to save their beloved hotel. Meanwhile, Peter reads fifty stories over the course of fifty nights. Inflating a Dog (2002): Peter's mother attempts to keep both a boat and her entrepreneurial dreams afloat. Meanwhile, Peter attempts to resuscitate a slowly sinking boat. Passionate Spectator (2004): Now living in Manhattan, Peter is summoned for jury duty and uses this moment to enter the mind of Matthew Barber in the present. He later takes on the identity of Bertram W. Beath in Miami. Flying (2009): A trilogy of the novellas "Taking Off'", "On the Wing", and "Flying Home". Flying juxtaposes Peter's early adventures traveling cross-country on an aerocycle with Peter and his wife Albertine revisiting this territory in the present. References External links Official website. Discover the Eric Kraft popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Eric Kraft books.
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Life on the Bolotomy
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls a childhood journey of discovery that he made from the mouth of the Bolotomy River to its source, traveling with his best (and imaginary) friend Rodney “Raskol”...
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The Static of the Spheres
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls his maternal grandfather’s attempt to build a shortwave radio, a project that begins with an article in Impractical Craftsman magazine promising "hour after int...
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The Young Tars
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls an episode from his gradeschool years, an episode that he would really rather forget, one of the dark, gritty bits that one finds at the bottom of the chowder b...
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The Fox and the Clam
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls his childhood friend Matthew Barber. Peter and Matthew seem unlikely friends. Matthew finds little to like in life, and his outlook is decidedly blue. Peter fin...
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At Home with the Glynns
Eric KraftPeter Leroy receives his sexual initiation at the hands of the Glynn twins, becomes a sketch doctor, listens to many tales about the night the Nevsky mansion burned, learns the va...
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Passionate Spectator
Eric KraftIn the ninth volume of his memoirs, Peter Leroy, summoned for jury duty, allows his mind to wander, and slips into the mind of Matthew Barber, who finds himself in the cardiac cath...
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My Mother Takes a Tumble
Eric KraftPeter Leroy explores his earliest memories, which involve Dudley Beaker, a nextdoor neighbor with a shady occupation; Eliza Foote, a shapely blonde (a product of his imagination); ...
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Little Follies
Eric KraftPeter Leroy explores one of his earliest memories, his mother’s tumble from her lawn chair; probes the root causes of his childhood pelecypodophobia (fear of bivalve mollusks, part...
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Inflating a Dog
Eric KraftPeter Leroy struggles to win the affections of the toothsome Patti Fiorenza while keeping his mother’s hopes and his mother’s boat afloat. Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary...
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Dumb Ideas
Eric Andre & Dan CurryFrom the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip, an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking.Eric André is a master of the art of prankin...
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Take the Long Way Home
Eric KraftPeter Leroy returns in memory to the fourth grade, where he finds himself gazing at Veronica McCall across the Gulf of Puberty. Remembering Veronica, the hottest little number in B...
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Call Me Larry
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls his childhood affection for the Larry Peters series of adventure books. As a boy, he entered the world of the books so completely that he went from wanting to b...
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Morgen wird der Himmel voller Farben sein
Jean-Gabriel CausseDas Leben ist zu kurz für graue GedankenGrasgrün, sonnengelb und himmelblau – von einem Tag auf den anderen verschwinden die Farben von der Erde. Die Welt versinkt im Chaos, Autoun...
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Reservations Recommended
Eric KraftMemoirist Peter Leroy constructs a plausible adult life for his grade school chum Matthew Barber, now living in Boston, where he is vicepresident of a toy company by day, but becom...
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Flying
Eric KraftIn the town of Babbington, New York, at the tail end of an alternative version of the 1950s, a young dreamer named Peter Leroy has set out to build a flying motorcycle, using a des...
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Persistence
Eric KraftPersistence expands from a simple story into a complex digital work, drawing on the strengths of many media to intrigue, entertain, and even inspire. At its heart is a story about ...
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What a Piece of Work I Am
Eric Kraft“[What a Piece of Work I Am] centers on the sultry Ariane, who had been the town bad girl in the 1950s. Baring the sexual secrets and bizarre events of her past to Peter, the plato...
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The Girl with the White Fur Muff
Eric KraftPeter Leroy recalls the trouble that ensued when a wellmeaning teacher appointed him director of Babbington’s annual fourthgrade production of King Lear. Three of his classmates wa...