100% Pure Florida Fiction Contributor(s): Hubbard, Susan (Editor), Wilson, Robley (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813017521 ISBN-13: 9780813017525 Publisher: University Press of Florida
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2000 Annotation: This anthology of modern Florida fiction showcases the work of twenty-one 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 more than 600 stories in books, magazines, literary journals, and on the internet, the editors selected the best Florida fiction of the century's last decades. What these stories have in common, of course, is a Florida setting -- but a Florida so strongly evoked that it is more character than place. In these stories Florida is sinister, full of alligators, creeping plants, heavy clouds, noir cops, and con artists; it is the surreal spread of theme parks, condominiums, and strip malls; and it is paradise -- lost, regained, and remembered -- of sea, sun, hammock, forest, and glade. 100% Pure Florida Fiction is the perfect literary companion for Florida travels, armchair and actual, from the Panhandle to Key West and a dozen places in between. And it is proof that Florida is the stuff good stories are made of. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 99039571 |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.39" W x 9.27" L (0.97 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Florida |
Features: Dust Cover |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/03/2000 pg. 65 Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2001 pg. 66 - Recommended/Regional General |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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
My husband and I live in a tin can. He calls it the streamline model, the top of the line, the cream of the crop when it comes to moveable homes. Ambulatory and proud of it. That's Frank's motto and I guess it makes sense in a way, since he is the only one of six siblings who's still alive and walking, not to even mention that he spent his whole adult life setting things in concrete--house foundations and driveways, sidewalks that will remain until the New England winters crack them once too often and that new cement outfit that just opened comes in to redo the job.
Robley Wilson, professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, has been editor of the North American Review since 1969. He has published a novel, four books of short fiction, and three books of poetry, including Everything Paid For (UPF, 1999).
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