The Flamingo Rising
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0316643599
ISBN 13
9780316643597
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
320
Description
Irresistible (NEW YORKER)Plenty here to enjoy, including brilliant flashes of black humour ... beautifully paced and, finally, very moving (OBSERVER)A feel-good upbeat book about life and death, Romeo and Juliet, drive-ins and a kinder, gentler American past (NEW YORK TIMES)The new John Irving ... there are moments not only of broad comedy, but also a host of quirky, affectionate cameos (TIME OUT) It's the 1960s in Jacksonville, Florida (where the sixties are still the fifties). Some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding out on the coastal highway at the Flamingo, the largest drive-in movie theatre in the world. Its owner, Southern patriarch Hubert Lee, possesses a fervour matching the size of the Great White Wall of the Flamingo's gigantic screen tower, where John Wayne or Audrey Hepburn or invading body-snatchers flicker nightly. Hubert's unforgiving ego meets its match in Turner West, who owns the funeral home next door and wants to build a cemetery on land staked by his gleefully stubborn neighbour. So when Hubert's teenage son Abe develops his first adolescent crush, it makes devilish sense that the object of his affections should be Grace, Turner's only daughter and the apple of his eye. At once funny and heart-breaking, THE FLAMINGO RISING is a novel full of tenderness and insight about the power of love, the need for faith and the persistence of memory. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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