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Florida Fiction * personal favorites
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Florida Fiction * personal favorites
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*Baker, Larry. The Flamingo Rising. NY, Knopf, 1997.
Banks, Russell. Continental Drift. NY: Harper & Row, 1985.
Barthelme, Frederick, Tracer. NY: Simon & Shuster, 1985.
Bell, Christine. The Perez Family. NY: Norton, 1990.
Bernardo, Anilau. Jumping Off to Freedom. Houston: Pinata Books, 1996.
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Buffett, Jimmy. Tales from Margaritaville. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1989.*
_____Where Have You Been, Joe MerchantBurroway, Janet. Opening Nights. NY: Atheneum, 1985.
Cannell, Stephen J. Final Victim. NY: William Morrow, 1996.
Carter, Betsy, The Orange Blossom Express. Algonquin,
2005.
_____ Swim to Me. Algonquin, 2007.
Chiarella, Rom. Foly's Luck. NY: Knopf, 1992.
Coyle, Beverly. The Kneeling Bus. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1991.
_____In Troubled Waters. NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
Crews, Harry, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit. NY: Morrow, 1971.
_____Car. NY: Morrow, 1972.
_____The Gypsy's Curse NY: Knopf, 1974.
_____Naked in Garden Hills, NY: Morrow, 1969.
_____The Hawk is Dying. NY: Knopf, 1973.
_____All We Need of Hell. NY: Harper & Row, 1987.
_____Body. NY: Poseidon, 1990.
_____Scar Lover. NY: Poseidon, 1992.
_____The Mulching of America. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Curtis, James R. Shango. Houston: Arte Publico, 1996.
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Dexter, Pete. Paperboy. NY: Random House, 1995.Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Road to the Sun. 1951.
_____Nine Florida Stories. ed. Kevin McCarthy. Jacksonville: UNP, 1990.
_____Freedom River. Miami: Valiant Press, 1994.
Elkin, Stanley. Mrs. Ted Bliss. NY: Hyperion, 1995.
Fernandez, Roberto G. Holy Radishes! Houston: Arte Publico, 1995.
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Fowler, Connie May. Sugar Cage. 1992. rpt. NY: Washington Square, 1993.**
_____River of Hidden Dreams. NY: Putnam, 1994.*
_____Before Women Had Wings NY: Putnam, 1996.Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon. 1959 rpt. NY: Bantam, 1976.
Fraxedas, J. Joaquin. The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera. NY: St. Martins, 1993.
Friedman, Mickey. Riptide. NY: St. Martins, 1994.
Garcia, Cristina. The Aguero Sisters. NY: Knopf, 1997.
Garrett, George P. The KIng of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Harrison, Sam. Birdsong Ascending. NY: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1992.
Heller, Jane. Infernal Affairs. NY: Kensington, 1996.
Hendricks, Vicki. Miami Purity. NY: Pantheon, 1995.
Herlihy, James Leo. Midnight Cowboy. NY: Simon & Shuster, 1965.
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Hood, Mary. Familiar Heat.. NY: Knopf, 1995.Hoffman, Alice. Turtle Moon. NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1992.
Irving, Washington. Wolfert's Roost, 1855.
Kantor, MacKinlay. The Noise of Their Wings 1938.
Kotker, Norman. Billy in Love. Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1996.
L'Engle, Madeline. The Other Side of the Sun. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1971.
MacDonald, John D. Condominium, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1977.
McDonald, Cherokee Paul. Summer's Reason. NY: D.I. FIne, 1995.
McGuane, Thomas. The Bushwhacked Piano. NY: Simon & Shuster, 1971.
_____Ninety-Two in the Shade. NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973. (M)
_____Panama. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978.
McLendon, James. Deathwork. NY: Lippincott, 1977.
Michener, James. Recessional. NY: Random House, 1994.
Norman, Geoffrey. Sweetwater Ranch. NY: Atlantic Monthly, 1991.
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Owens, Janis. My Brother, Michael. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1997._____. Myra Sims. Sarasota: Pineapple,
_____. The Schooling of Claybird Catts. NY: Harper Collins, 2003.
Pearce, Donn. Cool Hand Luke. NY: Scribners, 1965.
Pulitzer, Roxane. Facade. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Robinson, Kevin. Split Seconds. NY: Walker, 1991.
Rollini, Art. When Will Summer Come? Nashville: Winston Derek, 1992.
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Sanchez, Thomas. Mile Zero. New York: Random House 1990.Sayles, John. Los Gusanos. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.
Saul, John. Darkness. NY: Bantam, 1991.
Suarez, Virgil. Latin Jazz. NY: Simon and Shuster, 1989.
_____The Cutter. NY: Ballantine, 1991.
_____Going Under. Houston: Arte Publico, 1996.
Taylor, Matt. Neon Dancers. NY: Walker, 1991.
Van Wert, William. What's It All About?: A Novel of Life, Love & Key Lime Pie. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Veciana-Suarez, Ana. The Chin Kiss King. NY: FSG, 1997.
Vilmure, Daniel. Toby's Lie. NY: HarperPerennial, 1996.
Watson, Sterling. Weep No More, My Brother. NY: Morrow, 1978.
_____The Calling Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1986.
_____Deadly Sweet. NY: Pocket, 1994.
Whittaker, Dorothy Raymond. Angels of the Swamp. NY: Walker, 1992.
Wilder, Robert. Flamingo Road, 1942.
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Williams, Joy. Breaking and Entering. 1981. rpt. New York: Vintage, 1988._____The Changeling. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
_____Taking Care
Yglesias, Jose. A Wake in Ybor City. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
_____The Goodbye Land. NY: Pantheon, 1967.
_____The Truth About Them. NY: World, 1970.
_____Break-In. Arte Publico, 1996.
