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Where Is Joe Merchant? : A Novel Tale by Jimmy Buffett (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100151962960
ISBN-139780151962969
eBay Product ID (ePID)53427
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhere Is Joe Merchant? : a Novel Tale
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicMystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorJimmy Buffett
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight26.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-017136
ReviewsEntertainer 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 Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWhere 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 NumberPS3552.U375W47 1992
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- Dec 28, 2015
One of my favorites
I was given my first paperback copy of this book by one of Jimmy Buffett's bodyguards 20 years ago, and I was hooked from the very first chapter, I'm so pleased to finally get a hard copy. I don't do the 'book report' reviews, so here is my synopsis. A fun story involving intrigue, action, and humor, I enjoyed it very much, and can read it over and over again.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 05, 2025
Fins UP fellow parrothead! TYVM , the bo...
Fins UP fellow parrothead! TYVM , the books FAR exceeded my expectations! Imagine a book FULLY intact WITH CD! You so rock!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 19, 2022
Perfect!
This is Jimmy Buffett showing the world that he is more than just an old singin' hippie. His prose is infectious, and it keeps the reader engaged. Plus, he throws in a lot of quotes from his songs which is manna from heaven to a Parrotthead.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- May 19, 2024
Clean book in great shape, with dust jacket. Repeat customer
Clean book in great shape, with dust jacket. Repeat customerVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 04, 2016
Fun Reading
Used book in great shape. Buffett take you on quite a romp.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 15, 2023
Joy ride with Jimmy B.
Great reading, fun escapism as only the son of a son of a sailor could write it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Dec 04, 2018
GREAT!
Great story and Very Compelling. IMHO, This should Have been made into a screenplay. a quality read. As for the item, it was in WAY better condition than the descry[tion would have You believeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 17, 2023
Great Title
Loved It!!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Oct 17, 2018
entertaining, delightful
first book by Jimmy Buffett, but comes highly recommended. Looking forward to reading all his books.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jun 08, 2020
Good story line
Hard to put downVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
