Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West

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AuthorMcKeen, William
PublisherCrown
Bindinghardcover
PublishedOctober 4, 2011
EditionFirst Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages320
ISBN-100307592006
ISBN-139780307592002
Weight1.25 lb
Dimensions
H × W × L		 1.5 in × 6.1 in × 9.3 in

Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West

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Used book in poor condition. Pages and cover have significant wear and may be soiled or yellowed. CDs and access codes may be missing.

About this book

True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city   For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: KeyWest, Florida. The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild...

Read the full description True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
 
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: KeyWest, Florida.
The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collection of artists wove a web of creative inspiration.
Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how these writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades, despite oceans of booze and boatloads of pot, through serial marriages and sexual escapades, in that dangerous paradise.
Unlike the “Lost Generation” of Paris in the twenties, we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of America’s highway.
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