Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of an American Dream

by Dennis Covington

Book Overview

From the author of the National Book Award finalist, Salvation on Sand Mountain, a quixotic, comic account of one man's quest for a small piece of the American Dream. Every year, Dennis Covington's father brought his family to the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle, the Redneck Riviera, and it seemed there was no place he was happier. Florida was an intoxicant to him. In 1965 he made the only investment of his life--two and a half acres of an inland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582432953
• ISBN13: 9781582432953
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent small book!

Despite its relative lack of heft, this book makes for rich reading. You will learn a lot and think about what Mr. Covington has to say on the subjects of family, land, and place.