Next Exit Magic Kingdom: Florida Accidentally [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Maclean, Rory

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006552285 ISBN 13: 9780006552284

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 2001

Riassunto

Fast, taut, sharp, seriously funny and wonderfully observed, a book that reveals with terrific verve the weirder and more wonderful aspects of the Sunshine State

Rory MacLean never planned to visit Florida. Then one day the Daily Mail is delivered to his house by mistake. Twenty-four hours later he finds himself in the land of Mickey Mouse, gull-wing Thunderbirds and drive-by shootings. He discovers the site of the Garden of Eden, drinks at the fountain of eternal youth, communes with the hereafter and narrowly avoids gratuitous sex. He swims alongside alligators and mermaids, meets a real-life saint and shares marshmallow bunnies with Florida’s only community of monks. He sees the Last Supper sculpted in pecans, experiences an Alien Encounter and finds a Holocaust Memorial in the midst of one of the most hedonistic cultures on earth.

Along the way he considers the role chance plays in our lives, and how American dreams can seem to come true under Florida’s swaying palms. Next Exit Magic Kingdom is a journey to find the soul of the sunshine state – a place at once kooky and dangerous, superficial and sincere, sensationalist, bland and dumb – which will warm even Mickey’s plastic heart.

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Recensione:

‘The best book I’ve read for a very long time’
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L'autore:

Born in Vancouver, Rory MacLean has lived in Toronto, London, the Hebrides, Berlin and Italy. His first book, Stalin’s Nose, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work prize and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award. The Oatmeal Ark and Under the Dragon followed, the latter winning an Arts Council Writers’ Award and being shortlisted for the Thomas Cook. He also writes and presents the BBC Radio 4 travel programme Itchy Feet.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0006552285
• ISBN 13: 9780006552284
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256