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

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The author of the critically acclaimed Salvation of Sand Mountain describes his sometimes dangerous odyssey to the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle to claim his inheritance, a parcel of two and half acres of an island Florida development called River Ranch Acres purchased by his father, in a study of the clash of values that is tearing apart much of rural America. 50,000 first printing.

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Dennis Covington is the author of two novels, a memoir and the nonfiction book Salvation on Sand Mountain, which was a 1995 National Book Award finalist. He is also a journalist and a professor of literature at the University of Alabama. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Rednecks, armadillos and outlaws all play only ancillary roles in National Book Award nominee (for Salvation on Sand Mountain) Covington's touching, meandering tribute to his father. And although the title is somewhat misleading, the American dream is front and center as two generations of the Covingtons tenaciously pursue it. In 1965, the elder Covington bought a two-and-half-acre plot in River Ranch Acres, a Florida real estate scam. The land was worthless, never surveyed, miles from the nearest road, and when his father died in 1988, the younger Covington inherited it. Unfortunately, a band of locals, hunters and ne'er-do-wells calling themselves The Hunt Club had since fenced off the entire area and, with guns, restricted access to outsiders. Undeterred, deed in hand, the author sets out to understand, then realize, his father's dream. He chases "the crazy idea that any inheritance might be worth claiming, no matter how small, no matter the cost." Though this is a bracingly original American adventure story, there's too much padding in this short, generously spaced book. Covington is an able observer and skilled writer, but his detours-especially to Idaho toward the end of the book-prevent cohesiveness.
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  • PublisherCounterpoint
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 1582432953
  • ISBN 13 9781582432953
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