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"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
Like an album of snapshots from a tropical vacation, this collection of seventeen stories captures Florida places and characters transformed by the literary imagination of some of America's finest short fiction writers like Stephen Crane.
The stories range widely across Florida history and landscapes--St. Petersburg in the 20s, Key West and Alachua County in the 30s, Coconut Grove and Jacksonville in the 50s, Miami Beach in the 60s, and Ft. Lauderdale in the 70s. Andrew Lytle recounts violent events in an Indian village during the Spanish rule. Sarah Orne Jewett and Stephen Crane treat maritime Florida in the 19th century while Hemingway and Philip Wylie present stories of the 20th century. From the pinewoods of northern Florida, through cracker farms, boom towns, and coastal suburbs, to the swamps and the Keys, we meet characters both common and extraordinary: moonshiners, socialites, carnies, sailors, scavengers, and fugitives.
McCarthy's collection reveals the impact of a rich human and natural environment on the work of these distinguished writers. In the process it captures the uniquely Floridian coincidence of the exotic and mundane.
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Mention Florida and literature in the same breath, and chances are you're talking about either Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic, The Yearling, or the detective novels of John D. MacDonald. Stories by both writers appear in this collection of 17 Florida-set tales by Sunshine State natives, adoptees, and passers-through. Editor McCarthy introduces each story as well as the whole book with minimal critical fuss and optimal factual backgrounding. The other authors represented include such weighty names as Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ring Lardner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ernest Hemingway; among the contemporary notables are I. B. Singer, Gore Vidal, and James Leo Herlihy. Selected bibliography. --Ray Olson