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The thing about Florida : exploring a misunderstood state

Title
The thing about Florida : exploring a misunderstood state / Tyler Gillespie.
Author
Gillespie, Tyler
Publication
  • Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
169 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Tyler Gillespie takes readers on an exuberant search for the state behind the caricatures, finding Florida's humanity: a beautiful mix of hopes, dreams, and second chances.
Subject
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  • HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
  • Manners and customs
  • Florida
  • Florida > Humor
  • Florida > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
Humor.
Contents
Because Florida -- Florida man theory -- Of the storm -- A confederacy of reenactors -- Landscape with crackers -- Young and beautiful forever -- Brief encounters with alligators -- Snake shadows -- Reptile people -- A revelation.
Call Number
JFE 21-8199
ISBN
  • 9780813066875
  • 0813066875
LCCN
2020942567
OCLC
1193592117
Author
Gillespie, Tyler, author.
Title
The thing about Florida : exploring a misunderstood state / Tyler Gillespie.
Publisher
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFE 21-8199
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