Tales from Margaritaville : fictional facts and factual fictions

Tales from Margaritaville : Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions By: Jimmy Buffett ISBN 10: 0449222489 ISBN 13: 9780449222485 British National Bibliography System Number: 011936904 OCLC Number: 965586602 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 89036538 Publisher: Ballantine Books/Fawcett Crest (1993) Just where is Margaritaville, anyway? It's not on a map, that's for sure. But it does exist, in the brilliantly creative imagination of singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. TALES FROM MARGARITAVILLE is a collection so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is an adventure itself. "Entertaining...The whole volume is a tribue to Buffett's storytelling skills and his essentially sunny, manana-influenced worldview." THE HOUSTON POST Buffett pays loving tribute to the Gulf Coast in accounts of local superstitions, character sketches, sea adventures, humorous anacdotes. All are told in a laid-bvack style reminiscent of the oral tradition; colectively, they create a vivid image of time and place Contains four autobiographical stories and ten fictional short stories.