Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions

by Jimmy Buffett

You won't find it on any map, this tropical island has its origins somewhere and everywhere...Sung into existence by Jimmy Buffett and popularised on the radio, Margaritaville is both mythical and real - a place where human curiosity, passion, and humour delicately intertwine. Tales from Margaritaville brings an extraordinary southern writer to the world of fiction. The imaginary island of Snake Bite Key, the wonderfully colourful inhabitants of Heat Wave, the fictional pop hero Freddy Fishwick, and much, much morel

• ISBN10: 0151879834
• ISBN13: 9780151879830
• Publish Date: 10 May 1990
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 April 2012
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Imprint: Thomson Learning
• Edition: Harvest ed.
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 230
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

A recent re-read for me, though I dare not try to add the dates, as I'm afraid BL will blow my original dates out.

I love these stories and continue to love them every time I read them.  They remind me of my home, and their eccentric and quirky.  What I didn't remember from previous re-reads was the Australian thread that runs through both the book and many of the stories.  Buffett opens with a quote from Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, in an introduction titled "Walkabout", and at least one - two? - stories include references to aboriginal myth.  A small thing, but a nice parallel for a Florida girl on a decade-plus walkabout down under.