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The Flamingo Rising , Baker, Larry
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780375400506
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375400508
ISBN-13
9780375400506
eBay Product ID (ePID)
451933
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flamingo Rising
Number of Pages
309 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-073822
Reviews
Excerpts from reviews of Larry Baker's The Flamingo Rising "A first novel that dares mix the Icarus, Oedipus and Earhart myths, risks a Romeo and Juliet update, plunders Dante, references the Bible, rewrites movie history and inside-outs the American past. Yet Baker's book is far from pretentious. It's one of the more endearingly adept debuts to come along in a while....A novel that is as fully realized as it is inventive, humorous and heartaching." --Los Angeles Times "Like his flamingo, Baker never loses his footing." --The Star Ledger "[The Flamingo Rising] is an American original, as big and as full of promise as a drive-in movie screen, formed out of the grist and gristle of late 20th century fiction." --Atlanta Constitution "This is much more than a sum of memorable parts; it is a literary tour de force, a study of barriers built and torn down." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "This pitch-perfect first novel is reminiscent of the best of John Irving....Like the giant July 4th fireworks display toward which the story builds, this engaging, moving novel sends up one sparkler after another on its way to a crash-bang, heart-stopping ending." --Publishers Weekly "The coming of age story is done to a fine turn in Baker's absolutely delightful first novel, which is also a clever spin on the Romeo and Juliet theme." --Booklist "A truly affecting work, and an inventive one." --Kirkus Reviews "[Baker's] own sense of theatre is so grand that only after three hundred pages does everything come joltingly into focus....Larry Baker is writing for grownups but he remembers how it felt not to be one, and renders the experiences in unforced, unshowy prose, neither folksy nor formal. The result is a novel that's both modest and surprisingly seductive." --The New Yorker, Excerpts from reviews of Larry Baker's The Flamingo Rising "A first novel that dares mix the Icarus, Oedipus and Earhart myths, risks a Romeo and Juliet update, plunders Dante, references the Bible, rewrites movie history and inside-outs the American past. Yet Baker's book is far from pretentious. It's one of the more endearingly adept debuts to come along in a while....A novel that is as fully realized as it is inventive, humorous and heartaching." --Los Angeles Times "Like his flamingo, Baker never loses his footing." --The Star Ledger "[The Flamingo Rising] is an American original, as big and as full of promise as a drive-in movie screen, formed out of the grist and gristle of late 20th century fiction." --Atlanta Constitution "This is much more than a sum of memorable parts; it is a literary tour de force, a study of barriers built and torn down." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "This pitch-perfect first novel is reminiscent of the best of John Irving....Like the giant July 4th fireworks display toward which the story builds, this engaging, moving novel sends up one sparkler after another on its way to a crash-bang, heart-stopping ending." --Publishers Weekly "The coming of age story is done to a fine turn in Baker's absolutely delightful first novel, which is also a clever spin on the Romeo and Juliet theme." --Booklist "A truly affecting work, and an inventive one." --Kirkus Reviews "[Baker's] own sense of theatre is so grand that only after three hundred pages does everything come joltingly into focus....Larry Baker is writing for grownups but he remembers how it felt not to be one, and renders the experiences in unforced, unshowy prose, neither folksy nor formal. The result is a novel that's both modest and surprisingly seductive." --The New Yorker From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
Set in the 1960s, in Jacksonville, Florida, this great American tale (Atlanta Journal & Constitution) tells a compelling story of living, feuding, fireworks and an extraordinary family whose home is the biggest drive-in theater in the world.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.A43145F57 199
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