The Happiest Man in the World

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Strange, wonderful, funny, weird, and totally engaging - and, like all of Wilkinson's work, simply beautiful -- Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief It's not often that a person as inspiring and deeply outrageous as Poppa Neutrino is described by an author as immensely gifted as Wilkinson. Here is a life in the largest, most courageous sense of the word, a life that most of us - if we're honest - will feel a pang of regret at not having lived -- Sebastian Junger, author of A Perfect Storm A marvellous raft of a book in which we float along listening to an amiable Christian hobo and champion bullshitter expound on the inexplicable... A masterpiece -- Garrison Keillor [A] masterpiece of joy...[a] vivid, precise and jubilant testament, which will fill his readers with a great and unexpected happiness -- Edward Hirsch A hauntingly beautiful biography... an elegy to the strange wonder of the stories he [Neutrino] had to tell * Guardian * Beautiful and true, this is a great book that brings you into the life of Poppa Neutrino, a character just as determined as the fishermen in Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', just as self-inventing and free as the explorer in Bellow's Henderson the Rain King -- Rich Cohen Poppa Neutrino built a raft from stuff he found on the streets of New York and sailed it across the Atlantic: he is a joy to meet through the happy medium of Wilkinson's wonderful words as Poppa plans his next epic voyage * Saga magazine *