Hot Damn!: Alligators in the Casino, Nude Women in the Grass, How Seashells Changed the Course of History, and Other Dispatches f

by James W. Hall

Book Overview

James W. Hall is the critically acclaimed author of eleven crime novels, including Body Language and Blackwater Sound . He's also published four books of poetry. And several of his short stories have appeared in magazines like the Georgia Review and Kenyon Review .Now, writing in the spirit of Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Hall wins a new kind of reader with this collection of essays that run from insightful to opinionated, funny to wise.Hall ponders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031228859X
• ISBN13: 9780312288594
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Hot Damn is right

There is at least one essay here that will move you. At least one will make you laugh. And many more where the pages fly. It is always interesting to find a different work by an author you admire. Time well spent and enjoyed. And a promise to be at a book signing if one is in my neighborhood.

Poet, Crime novelist and Essayest

This man can write. He can write fiction and he can write about Florida. These 39 essays are the superb refections of an interesting mind at work, at play and once, afraid for someone he loves. If you remember and liked John Kennedy's statement about how close the chemistry of our blood is to sea water then you will love Hall's "We swim in the amniotic fluids of our earth, as we swam so long ago like blind fish in the womb." (From Touchy Feely)I like his crime novels. But if you like Florida, particularly the Florida Keys, or evocative writing, or walking with an exceptionlly observant mind through interesting times, then you will appreciate this book of essays.