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Description edit
Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jimmy Buffett: Tales and Stories told by Jimmy Buffett
- Willett: Add a description of this character.
- Mark Twain: American Author, home town of Hannibal Mo. is now a cheesy tourist spot. Also, hero of Tully Mars.
- Tully: Young man from Wyoming that dreams of the ocean, owner of Mr. Twain the horse.
- Slade Patterson
- Isabella
- Donna Kay: Waitress Tully meets, she shows him some hot spots in New Orleans.
- Kirk
- Romeo Fleming
- Billy Purdy
- Clark
- Alice
- Gregorio
- Hector
- Sonny Boy
- Joe Mccormick
- Conrad
- Lance
- Jim Delaney
- Grandma
- Glenn Tidwell
- Hannah Hearndon
- Aurora
- Mrs. Barston
- Custer
- Spud
- Raymond
- Jane
- Semmes
- Hicks
- Freddy
- Lincoln
Quotes edit
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“The earth was sung into creation and is held together by songlines or dreamtimes, and every so often in a person's life he will get the calling to go "walkabout."”
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“I just love the idea that I could get on a boat right here and head our there for anywhere in the world. It's pretty overpowering.”
Tully -
“Over the many years of this boomerang love, they had learned to communicate without speaking.”
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“May the wind always be at your back, and may your horizons always be blue.”
Slade
Setting & Locations edit
- Key West
- Heat Wave
- Alabama
- New Orleans
- Gulf Of Mexico
- Florida
- Wyoming
- Paris
- Mississippi River
- California
- Cuba
- New York
- Mt Twain
- Savannah
- America
- Australia
- Havana
- Pascagoula
- Kansas
- Tortola
- Montana
- Caribbean Soul
- Cancun
- Gulf Coast
- Chickamulla
- Hannibal
- Pacific
- Martinique
- Gulf Stream
- North Carolina
First Sentence edit
Somehow I picked up an image of those 'tame' Blackfellows who, one day, would be working happily on a cattle-station: the next, without a word of warning and for no good reason, would up sticks and vanish into the blue.
Table of Contents edit
I. An Introduction: Changes in Latitude
1. Walkabout
2. Where is Margaritaville
II. The Heat Wave Chronicles
1. Take Another Road
2. Off to See the Lizard
3. Boomerang Love
4. The Swamp Creature Let One In
5. The Pascagoula Run
6. I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever
III. Margaritian Madness
1. You Can't Take It with You
2. Are You Ready for Freddy?
IV. Son of a Son of a Sailor
1. Hooked in the Heart
2. Life in the Food Chain
3. A Gift for the Buccaneer
4. Sometimes I Feel like a Rudderless Child
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jimmy Buffett (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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