|
by: Jack Rudloe
Amazon.com's Price: $14.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781892590374
ISBN: 1892590379
Label: Out Your Backdoor
Manufacturer: Out Your Backdoor
Number Of Pages: 274
Publication Date: March 17, 2003
Publisher: Out Your Backdoor
Sales Rank: 656795
Studio: Out Your Backdoor
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Jack Rudloe set out to write the first nonfiction book about the Gulf Coast shrimping way of life. What he discovered prompted him to write his first novel instead. Many of his sources are anonymous, dead or in prison, making a nonfiction account less than ideal.
Rudloe found that as the tradition of small family fishing is forced into extinction due to ill-conceived regulation, many die-hards refuse to give up their boats and shoreline family property and turn instead to making the dangerous 'run' to smuggle drugs and save their families if the risk pays off. What follows is an amazing tale...
Preston Barfield was an upstanding small-family commercial shrimper whose way of life pressures him into accepting an offer he can't refuse.
When Preston gets a panicked call from his brother-in-law Lupino that his boat is on fire, he turns his shrimp trawler offshore to the rescue, only to find Lupino's burning boat filled with smugglers and marijuana. Hard times and desperation force his hand into adventures that he never imagined.
The 'Forgotten Coast' is forgotten no longer in Rudloe's thrilling novel. The inside story of this culturally rich area is finally told.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Great Florida Lore
Readers of Potluck by Jack Rudloe will be treated to a great adventure story in which the hero must make moral choices that will test his deepest values. The story is realistically set in the threatened North Florida shrimping scene, which Rudloe knows intimately, and provides a number of colorful characters who are actually more realistic than a reader might believe. Potluck deals with the collision of the drug and shrimping culture for a rollicking and fast-paced read.
Rating: - High Adventure on the High Seas!
This is an outstanding novel about high adventure on the high seas and the money that honest men often do not see. If you like books that are full of adventure and mystery with a touch of local North Florida flare than you will love this book. As each of the characters in the story unfolds one soon realizes that each is a truly unique character portraying funny and even strange mannerisms unique to the North Florida Coast! The author does a wonderful job of portraying the hardships of life on the ... Read More
Rating: - POTLUCK a winning first novel
The acclaimed 2000 movie Traffic was earnest in its anti-drug message but suffered from overlength and preachiness. Far more compact and engrossing is Jack Rudloe's debut novel, Potluck.
Curiously, Potluck takes much the same tack as Traffic, showing how essentially good people are coerced into drug trafficking by impoverished circumstances. The book's main character is Preston Barfield, a shrimp boat captain at the end of his rope. Preston and his young deckhand Charlie are in hock up ... Read More
Rating: - Rip-roaring Yarn!
What a great read! If you like a good old-fashioned tale of adventure you'll really enjoy this book. If you love the north Florida Gulf Coast it'll be even more fun and you'll find this book "un-put-downable"! The author obviously knows his locations and his citizens. This up-to date fictional tale of what is happening as the shrimpers of yesterday try to support their families doing what they love but under today's rules is interspersed with enough wild action to make an Ed McBain reader very ... Read More
|
