1960, ISBN: 9780307775672

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 Fla… Mehr…

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 America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding. For Abe's father Hubert there's 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 doesn't much appreciate the noise and merriment from the drive-in next door. Within the lively orbit of this ongoing feud is Abe's 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 Turner's beautiful daughter Grace. That's when long before the Fourth of July festivities the fireworks really begin. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition. eBook<

1960, ISBN: 9780307775672

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 Fla… Mehr…

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 America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding. For Abe's father Hubert there's 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 doesn't much appreciate the noise and merriment from the drive-in next door. Within the lively orbit of this ongoing feud is Abe's 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 Turner's beautiful daughter Grace. That's when long before the Fourth of July festivities the fireworks really begin. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition. eBook<