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ISBN: 0345427025 (ISBN13: 9780345427021)
Edition Language: English
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The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Paperback | Pages: 309 pages
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I've had this book on my shelf for years. I started reading when I first bought it, got about 30 pages in, then put it down. I should have kept reading. This book was one of the most delightful surprises of my reading experience. It was nostalgic and humanistic. It was, in turn, tender, gut-wrenchingly sad, and wonderfully funny. The characters were well-balanced and three dimensional.

I loved the world Baker created. I don't normally re-read books, but this one may get pulled from the shelf sometime in the future.

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Title:The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Author:Larry Baker
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 309 pages
Published:June 23rd 1998 by Ballantine Books (first published 1997)
Categories:Fiction. Family. Realistic Fiction

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The writing was good. The story was interesting. And it made me cry. I will look for others by this author and see how they are.

I loved this book, and it is definitely a contender for my top ten of 2008 list. Hubert Lee builds the world's biggest drive-in theater, the Flamingo, next to Turner West's funeral home, sparking an intense feud. Hubert Lee adopted two children from Korea, Louise and Abe, our narrator. The book was billed as a Romeo and Juliet story between Abe and Turner West's daughter, Grace, but it's more of a coming-of-age in the 1960s story. I was interested in all of the quirky and unique characters, and



An average coming-of-age story is set in the captivating location of a huge North Florida drive-in movie theatre in the '60's. Without the unique setting, this was a 3 star story at best, but the strong setting adds a star.

I was asked to read a book by a Florida author by one of my colleagues, who is working on a display for our library - specifically a book set in or written by an author from St. Augustine. I chose The Flamingo Rising, and had no expectations going into the novel but was pleasantly surprised by what I found. The story reads like a memoir and is very much a coming-of-age novel. The narrator is Abraham Isaac Lee, who details the events of several years of his childhood growing up at the Flamingo

An interesting novel about family rivalries in Florida. The narrator, Abraham Issac Lee, tells the story of his father, Hubert Thomas Lee, who had an intense personal rivalry with Turner West. The latter built a funeral home on the west side of highway A1A between Jacksonville and St. Augustine in 1951. Hubert Lee, on the other hand, built a drive-in theatre, named the Flamingo, on land just opposite on the east side of the highway. As the novel proceeds, we learn that Abraham was an orphan of

SO GOOD!