The Flamingo Rising

The Flamingo Rising

by Larry Baker (Author)

Synopsis

t'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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 1999

ISBN 10: 0349109923
ISBN 13: 9780349109923
Book Overview: * National press colour ad campaign in the GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES * POS to include poster and dumpbin with custom header * To be submitted for trade promotions * Review Coverage * Author features and profiles * Reading copies available

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Larry was raised an Army/ Air Force brat, travelling all over the world with his family. His varied career path includes running drive-in movie theatres, but now teaches history and literature for the University of Iowa and local community colleges, as well as serving on the Iowa city council.