Night and Day
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ISBN13: 9780671864224
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"Even Ernest himself would probably have fled Key West's Hemingway Days celebration - a week of raucous tourists and swaggering Papa pretenders that sends the locals into hiding. Thus the low profile assumed by Gideon Lowry, playing his weekly piano gig at a quiet hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That's where Asia - just Asia, like Madonna - finds him. Beret-clad, with lips the color of a plum, she glides into Gideon's world on the breathless end of a classic tune. She's left her aerie at MTV to find her estranged husband, who's lost in the reverie surrounding his obsession: Hemingway. But Asia doesn't want him back, she wants a divorce - and is ready to pay handsomely for it." "For Gideon, locating Frank Maguire is the easiest thousand he's ever made; keeping the writer alive proves impossible. Caught at the wrong end of a twelve-gauge shotgun on the grounds of the Hemingway House museum, Maguire's exit is either appropriately macho suicide, or murder. When police detain Lowry's old friend Sweetwater - one of Papa's sparring partners back in the island's glory days - Gideon vows to uncover the truth, even if it runs against the tide of the almighty tourist trade." "Maguire dwelt in the hothouse of Key West literati, a society of snowbirds that produces more gossip than great works - a crowd as foreign to Gideon as Asia's music videos. But it seems Maguire had been unusually productive on two very sensitive fronts: he had scored an arrangement that had some Hemingway devotees fuming, and was working an explosive angle on a powerful business interest. Meanwhile, Maguire's death is a windfall for Asia - her thorny divorce gives way to effortless widowhood." "As the festival builds to its crescendo, mainland violence pays another nasty visit. There's an evil dancing behind the carefree facades of Duval Street, and it will take every sun-bitten ounce of Gideon's Conch resolve to reel it in...."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780671864224 |
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| ISBN-10 | 067186422X |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 1.02 x 5.82 x 8.84 In |
| List Price | $20.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 256 pages |
| Publisher | Atria |
| Published On | 1995-04-01 |
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