Key West Tales: Stories

published	1996 by Vintage
binding	Paperback
isbn	0679772634 (isbn13: 9780679772637)
pages	240
description	Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey...more [close] Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories. [close]
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Kirk rated it:

05/16/08

bookshelves: sentimental-faves

Read in July, 1996

A beautiful book of stories by the author of HIROSHIMA that mingles past and present. Key West literature has always been an interesting if ill-defined genre of regional literature; less menacing than LA but more rollicking than Chicago, it's been a metaphor of immigration and miscegenation, terrorism and revolution, popular fiction and literature. Somehow Hersey manages to take this whole history in. The longer stories involve early 1990s issues relevant to the island---most notably AIDS. The s...more

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Katherine rated it:

01/25/08

I love these character-full stories of the interactions of the inhabitants of the bohemian island of Key West. I'm a big fan of the place myself, and this book brings to life the place, just as I always thought it would be. Makes me want to learn to sail and relocate.

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