The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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In this touching hilarious novel of the heart and mind of dreams and memory of desire and first love Abe Lee comes of age in the 1960s living with his unforgettable family at the Flamingo Drive-In Theatre on a scrubby patch of coast between Jacksonville and St. Augustine Florida. There some of Americas last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding. For Abes father Hubert theres nothing better than presenting larger-than-life Hollywood fantasies on his vast silver screen. Nothing that is except gleefully sparring with Turner West--a funeral home operator who doesnt much appreciate the noise and merriment from the drive-in next door. Within the lively orbit of this ongoing feud is Abes mother Edna Marie whose calm radiance conceals deep secrets; his sister Louise who blossoms almost too quickly into a stunning willful young woman; and Judge Lester a clumsy man on the ground who turns graceful when he takes to the sky towing the Flamingo banner behind his small plane. Then Abe falls for Turners beautiful daughter Grace. Thats when long before the Fourth of July festivities the fireworks really begin. . . .
