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Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale by Jimmy Buffett FIRST EDITION
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like new
- Seller notes
- ““Pre-owned. See Photos for condition.””
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- Edition
- First Edition
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780151962969
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151962960
ISBN-13
9780151962969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53427
Product Key Features
Book Title
Where Is Joe Merchant? : a Novel Tale
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
Mystery & Detective / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-017136
Reviews
Entertainer Buffett's second blockbuster (after Tales from Margaritaville ), an 18-week PW bestseller, involves the search for the eponomyous missing rock star., The relaxed and reigning king of beach music, who most recently told Tales From Margaritaville (1989), tries his hand at a relaxed and rambling novel. It's about seaplanes, a pretty girl, a vanished rock star, the curse of jet skis, a magic scepter, disrupters of paradise, and conch burgers. Joe Merchant, of the title, is the missing, presumed dead rock star whose sister Trevor Kane has returned to Florida to enlist her old lover Frank Bama to check out rumors of Merchant's survival. Trevor left Frank, a Vietnam vet who would rather fly than get serious, years ago because he seemed to love his ancient seaplane more than he loved her. Frank's doughty seaplane, however, is just what she needs to go in search of someone named Desdemona, who might be somewhere in the Caribbean. There is a Desdemona, and she does have a psychic link to the missing musician. She's been getting extrasensory messages for months. Also on the trail of Mr. Merchant and Desdemona are trash journalist Rudy Breno and one- armed, archvillainous soldier-of-fortune Colonel Cairo. Colonel Cairo is obsessed with the restoration of his missing arm, a task requiring a missing crystal. Desdemona might know something about that. The searches are Florida-intense, which is to say that there is plenty of time for subplots about Frank's chum who has been blowing up the jet skis that make paradise too noisy, and about a coldblooded killer with eyeballs tattooed on his eyelids who's not, after all, a subplot. So laid-back and rambling it's perilously close to sloppy, but Buffett's considerable charms as a performer and goof-off artist keep things afloat. The uninitiated may be baffled; his fans will be enchanted.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Where is Joe Merchant? That's what his sister, Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid-ointment heiress, wants to know. For Desdemona, Merchant is the missing link in her ongoing communications with space aliens. Tabloid journalist Rudy Breno only cares that Merchant gets bigger headlines than Elvis. And for renegade seaplane pilot Frank Bama, the mystery of the presumed-dead-but-often-sighted rock star is turning his life upside down. In his debut novel, Jimmy Buffett cooks up an irresistible gumbo of dreamers, wackos, pirates, and sharks, as he leads Trevor and Frank on a wild chase through the Caribbean Islands to a place where anything can happen . . . and everything does., Where is Joe Merchant? That's what his sister Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid ointment heiress, wants to know. For South Seas psychic Desdemona, Merchant is the missing link needed to connect her with other worlds. And the mystery of the presumed dead but often-sighted rock star's disappearance is turning renegade seaplane pilot Frank Bama's life upside down. Jimmy Buffet fans will be enchanted with this modern-day pirate tale.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.U375W47 1992
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- v***6 (232)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseVery fast shipping. Excellent communication, pretty good price, described and good packaging. I would buy from this seller again. Highly recommended
- g***o (5788)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI bought the book and paid for it. eBay emailed me saying the seller cancelled the order. I contacted the seller asking why he cancelled. He said he had sold the book the day before and mistakenly sold it again. I checked his sold items, it didn't show that book as being sold. 6 days later I log in to my eBay and see messages from the seller, saying he shipped the book and threatening me saying he's going to open a fraud case against me! I've left over 5600 positive feedbacks this one gets a -Reply from: wilcobooks- Feedback replied by seller wilcobooks.- Feedback replied by seller wilcobooks.Moments after the buyer contacted me I replied admitting I made a clerical error...literally minutes after. His message accused me of concelling the order to make more money from another buyer. I explained that the item was already shipped before cancelling the order (BY MISTAKE) and explained hi8s book would arrive ini a couple days. I asked for payment and a week went by before he replied, I left "positive feedback. I shipped the book and he never paid. Beware.
- m***i (291)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent Packaging, Prompt Shipping, Book as described.Celebration Hymnal : Pew Edition by Word Music (1997, Hardcover) (#176993737958)