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Welcome to nicholasmaes.com, a website dedicated to Nicholas Maes' novel Dead Man's Float. If you are wondering whether Dead Man's Float is the sort of the novel that might attract you personally, the purpose of this website is to convince you that, yes, if you are interested in literature, if you are interested in ideas, if you are interested in a rivetting good story, then Dead Man's Float is just the sort of story you will enjoy. The tale is centered round Nathan Gelder, a half-Jew of Dutch extraction, and his travails are a product of the Holocaust, but the novel has been written for a wide audience. If you're black or bone-white, if you're wrong or you're right, if you're squat like a pygmy or just the right height, this book is for you (to paraphrase Leonard 'Skye' Barvis, the novel's mega rock-star and Nathan Gelder's chief nemesis). 

Now that you know this book is right for you, you are faced with several possibilities. To read sample extracts from the novel, click on 'Samples' above. To find out more about the mysterious Nicholas Maes, click on 'Interview' above. To read some of rock star Leonard Barvis' lyrics, click on 'Lyrics' above. And, finally, to view information on how you can purchase this novel, click on 'To Purchase'.

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