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The Flamingo Rising
The Flamingo Rising
Author: Larry Baker
A big, touching, hilarious debut novel about loving, feuding, fireworks--and your average extraordinary family whose home is the largest drive-in movie theatre in the world. — It's the 1960s in Jacksonville, Florida (where the sixties are still the fifties), and some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding out on the coastal hi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375400506
ISBN-10: 0375400508
Publication Date: 8/26/1997
Pages: 309
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 0
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MaGee avatar reviewed The Flamingo Rising on + 43 more book reviews
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Abraham Issac Lee was lives in, not at but in, the Flamingo, the largest drive-in theater in the world. At least in 1960. His father built it along an Atlantic Ocean beach in Florida and next to the Turner West Funeral Home. The lives and characters in the book do not move much beyond these places.

This is a powerful coming of age novel that includes angst, humor, and most other emotions usually associated with this genre. The characters are real. The story believable. The ending heart-stopping. I had never heard of it before reading it and I don't know why. It goes on my very short list of favorites with a five star rating.
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This was just way too over the top for me. I did not like or understand the characters and their behavior.
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Really a fun story. You will have a smile on your face the whole time.
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Like the giant July 4th fireworks display toward which the story builds, this engaging, movig novel sens up one sparkler after another on its way to a crash-bang, heart-stopping ending.
5thsister avatar reviewed The Flamingo Rising on + 23 more book reviews
I really like this story. Very well read and the characters very realistic. You will love it
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This was a very engaging story that was hard to put down. It had a couple of unexpected twists and was fun to listen to from start to finish!


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