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Torrid zone : seven voices from the Gulf Coast
- Title
- Torrid zone : seven voices from the Gulf Coast / Jonathan Maslow.
- Author
- Maslow, Jonathan Evan.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [1995], ©1995.
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- Description
- 277 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Torrid Zone is a magical and steamy collection of tales from the swamps and bayous of the deepest South - the American Gulf Coast. In his first work of fiction, naturalist and travel writer Jonathan Maslow takes readers on a riotous tour of human geography in the land of Mardi Gras and pirates' treasure. Meet Cesar Fuentes, last of the Tampa cigar-factory lectors, the readers who turned the toilsome job of hand-rolling cigars into a dangerous political education.
- No better than she needs to be, Weekee Wachee's "live mermaid," Stevie Rae, tells her hard-luck story in a Gulf Coast blues bar at 3:00 A.M. Captain Babba, a one-legged Vietnam vet, spends his days ferrying tourists to see the whooping cranes of the Texas Gulf Coast until, one day, a Vietnamese tour group shows him a part of the coast no one alive has ever seen.
- And Estavanico, a saucy African slave, chronicles the travails of a sixteenth-century expedition to the New World gone wrong, playing Sancho Panza to his Conquistador's Don Quixote.
- Subject
- Gulf Coast (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Contents
- The Last Lector -- A Mermaid Pining for Her Sailor -- Prince Hamlet of the Florida Territory -- The Journal of Jean Lafitte, Corsair -- Africatown, Children -- The Healer: Chronicle of a Lost Expedition -- White Cranes.
- ISBN
- 0679408762 :
- LCCN
- 95003000
- OCLC
- 503678001
- ocn503678001
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries