|
Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale
|
| List Price: | $15.00 |
| Price: | $10.20 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
90 new or used available from $1.82
Average customer review:
Product Description
In his debut novel, Jimmy Buffett cooks up an irresistible gumbo of dreamers, wackos, pirates, and sharks, as he leads Trevor and Frank on a wild chase through the Caribbean Islands to a place where anything can happen . . . and everything does.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10140 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Entertainer Buffett's second blockbuster (after Tales from Margaritaville ), an 18-week PW bestseller, involves the search for the eponomyous missing rock star.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The relaxed and reigning king of beach music, who most recently told Tales From Margaritaville (1989), tries his hand at a relaxed and rambling novel. It's about seaplanes, a pretty girl, a vanished rock star, the curse of jet skis, a magic scepter, disrupters of paradise, and conch burgers. Joe Merchant, of the title, is the missing, presumed dead rock star whose sister Trevor Kane has returned to Florida to enlist her old lover Frank Bama to check out rumors of Merchant's survival. Trevor left Frank, a Vietnam vet who would rather fly than get serious, years ago because he seemed to love his ancient seaplane more than he loved her. Frank's doughty seaplane, however, is just what she needs to go in search of someone named Desdemona, who might be somewhere in the Caribbean. There is a Desdemona, and she does have a psychic link to the missing musician. She's been getting extrasensory messages for months. Also on the trail of Mr. Merchant and Desdemona are trash journalist Rudy Breno and one- armed, archvillainous soldier-of-fortune Colonel Cairo. Colonel Cairo is obsessed with the restoration of his missing arm, a task requiring a missing crystal. Desdemona might know something about that. The searches are Florida-intense, which is to say that there is plenty of time for subplots about Frank's chum who has been blowing up the jet skis that make paradise too noisy, and about a coldblooded killer with eyeballs tattooed on his eyelids who's not, after all, a subplot. So laid-back and rambling it's perilously close to sloppy, but Buffett's considerable charms as a performer and goof-off artist keep things afloat. The uninitiated may be baffled; his fans will be enchanted. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
"Jimmy Buffett scores another hit...You don't even have to be a parrothead to enjoy this wacked-out tale." -- Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Customer Reviews
An Annual Ritual
I've had this book for many, many years. It's become an annual ritual - a rite of passage for the Summer - to read it at the beach. Preferably with a Boat Drink in hand. Thanks Jimmy...
Forever a fan!
Easy, fun reading. Although it rambles on (and on and on), everything ties together. Really clever.
Parrothead
A great piece of escapism . I have read this "novel tale" more times than I care to count .A great read when it's cold outside and the snow is flying !
