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Entertainer Buffett's second blockbuster (after Tales from Margaritaville ), an 18-week PW bestseller, involves the search for the eponomyous missing rock star.
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I was watching the Cubs game and eating a fried shrimp platter at Bobalou's when Rudy Breno burst through the door like Geraldo Rivera on a drug raid. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmic muffin, missing float, tattooed eyes, old witch doctor, lone palm, green mamba Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monty Potter, Joe Merchant, Root Boy, Colonel Cairo, Charlie Fabian, Little Elmo, Jet Ski Killer, Rudy Breno, Billy Cruiser, Key West, Hemisphere Dancer, Polar Bar, Blanton Meyercord, Trevor Kane, Healing Hole, Jet Skis, Pass Her By Cay, Henri Christophe, Frank Bama, Fast Eddie, Gulf Stream, Lou Anne, National Lighthouse, Hackney Primstone, Miss Kane New!
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I was watching the Cubs game and eating a fried shrimp platter at Bobalou's when Rudy Breno burst through the door like Geraldo Rivera on a drug raid. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cosmic muffin, missing float, tattooed eyes, old witch doctor, lone palm, green mamba Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monty Potter, Joe Merchant, Root Boy, Colonel Cairo, Charlie Fabian, Little Elmo, Jet Ski Killer, Rudy Breno, Billy Cruiser, Key West, Hemisphere Dancer, Polar Bar, Blanton Meyercord, Trevor Kane, Healing Hole, Jet Skis, Pass Her By Cay, Henri Christophe, Frank Bama, Fast Eddie, Gulf Stream, Lou Anne, National Lighthouse, Hackney Primstone, Miss Kane New!
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- Key West: A Time to Embrace/Lizzy's Hope/Southern Treasures/One Man's Honor (Inspirational Romance Collection) by Lynn A. Coleman in Front Matter
- Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale by Jimmy Buffett in Back Matter
- Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale by Jimmy Buffett in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The New Great American Writers Cookbook by Dean Faulkner Wells on page 110
- The Best in Rock Fiction by June Sawyers in Back Matter
- Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale by Jimmy Buffett in Back Matter
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