The Flamingo Rising

Baker, Larry

ISBN 10: 0375400508 / ISBN 13: 9780375400506

Verlag: Knopf, 1997

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0375400508-3-26513237

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In Jacksonville, Florida, during the 1950s and 1960s, the intense rivalry between mortician Turner West and Hubert Lee, owner of America's largest drive-in movie theater, is heightened by their feud over land and the star-crossed love affair between their offspring. A first novel. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Larry Baker lives with his wife and children in Iowa City, where he teaches literature and history. Currently serving his second term on the City Council of Iowa City, he is seeking reelection this fall. He can be reached at bakerl@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu.


I was raised an Army/Air Force brat. Traveled with my family all over the country and then overseas. I was introduced to my father when I was three or four.  He was sitting up in my mother's bed, sheet pulled up to the bottom of his shirtless chest, a pair of binoculars hanging from around his neck, in a room with the curtains closed. If my writing shows some character's ambivalent feelings toward his father, it is probably me using fiction as therapy.

I was married when I was eighteen. It was the Sixties. If a girl told you that she was

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Flamingo Rising
Verlag: Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good