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This anthology of modern Florida fiction showcases the work of 21 writers, including such literary lights as Frederick Barthelme, Alison Lurie, Jill McCorkle, Peter Meinke, and Joy Williams, as well as that of new and emerging writers. Sifting through over 600 stories in books, magazines, literary journals, and the internet, the editors selected the best Florida fiction of the century’s last decades. 232pp. 6 X 9.0-8130-1752-1 Cloth, $49.95s 0-8130-1753-X Paper, $16.95 click on the price to order now |
Edited by Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson
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by Patrick Carr
"A thorough reporter, a careful listener, and a perceptive observer. . . . A book that is as reasonable as it is winning."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"One of the best—and funniest—pieces of
action journalism to come along since Tom
Wolfe."—Toronto Globe and Mail 237pp. 6 X 9. |
Edited by Rodger L. Tarr
386pp. 6 X 9. Photographs, notes, index.
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Edited by Kevin McCarthy Illustrations by Jeanne Van Riper
326pp. 6 X 9.
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Edited by Kevin McCarthy
326 pp. 6 X 9. ISBN 0-8130-1468-9 Cloth, $29.95 |
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by J.T. Glisson
283pp. 19 drawings, map. ISBN 0-8130-1184-1
Cloth, $29.95
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Charles E. Whitehead "Whitehead, a wealthy New York attorney and avid sportsman, recounts an 1830s hunting expedition to Florida in this captivating reissue of a volume originally published in 1860. Whitehead recounts bear and turkey hunts, a panther that is caught in a pig pen, an Indian attack on a lighthouse, and various encounters with Florida pioneers. A vivid and, according to biologist Lovett Williams who provides the introduction, largely accurate depiction of a long-vanished Florida. "--Tampa Tribune-Times
281pp. 6 X 9.
0-8130-1095-0 Paper, $12.95 |
"Brighter than a digital print-out, 100% Pure Florida Fiction provides a full-featured map of Florida’s imaginative landscape at the stark turning of the millennial moment--with visions and aftershocks that linger in the mind long after
reading."--Joe David Bellamy, former publisher and editor, Fiction International
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just cover a lot of territory and you do it aggressively
and you do it fairly and you don’t play favorites
and you don’t take any prisoners. It’s the old
school of slash-and-burn metropolitan column writing. You
just kick ass. That’s what you do. And that’s
what they pay you to do."--Carl Hiaasen
"As a
chronicler of American travels, Carr falls somewhere
between Charles Dickens and Crocodile Dundee."—Los
Angeles Times
"A potpourri of short stories that serves up more style and substance, more suspense and sensuality, than most of the titles on the current best-seller list."—Tampa Tribune
"I have read all of
these stories and there is not a bad one in the bunch... I will keep this collection by my bedside and read from
it, more or less, each night. It is that good."--Harry Crews
"The
tales are wonderful: an attempted murder, an affair of honor, the
ongoing conflict between the poachers-fisherman and the game
wardens. All the while, J.T.'s schemes for making money--among
them raising pigs and alligators--match anything Tom Sawyer might have
dreamed up."--Miami Herald