- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786250372
- ISBN-13: 978-0786250370
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 15.6 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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one of the funniest writers alive, I laughed so hard I fell out of a chair, The funniest book I've read in fifty years, a charming, witty and insightful storytellerthere is a comforting element of Kurt Vonnegut-like cosmic integrity to Barry's work, a little gem
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The Extravaganza of the Seas is a 5,000-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. Travelling this trip are Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress, desperate for something to go right for a change; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's band with so little talent they are, well, the ship's band; Arnold and Phil, two refugees from the Beaux Arts Senior Centre; Lou Tarant , a wide, bald man who has killed nine people, though none recently; and an assortment of uglies with names like Tark and Kaz whose job it is to facilitate the ship's true business, which is money-laundering or drug-smuggling or...something.
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Format:Paperback
Dave Barry at his best. That says it all. And if you are not familiar with Dave Barry's work, it is high time that you do become so! For you do not know what you are missing.
Format:Audio Cassette
Popular funny man Dave Barry hits another homer with his second laugh provoking mystery novel, while talented voice actor Dick Hill reads this rollicking tale with punch and panache.
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a floating casino that transports gamblers just far enough away from the Florida coast. Despite a tropical storm alert the owner of the ship orders it to sea; he has plans to hijack the drugs being smuggled aboard ship by some local Mafioso.
What a cast of characters! There is Fay Benton, a single mom hoping to get lucky for the sake of her child; two rascals in their eighties who have fled the confines of the Beaux Arts Senior Center; a motley bunch of mobsters; and Johnny and the Contusions, the ship's orchestra (if, of course, you are tone deaf).
The storms brings more than high winds to the passengers, and brings happy smiles to listeners as the fate of this madcap voyage is revealed.
Dave Barry again proves himself to be a first-rate fiction writer, and Dick Hill does another star turn.
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The trials and tribulations of drug smugglers don't usually include chronic sea-sickness or a large pink-suited shell-fish, but only incompetents would use a Florida gambling ship, packed full of assorted pensioners on the run from their Rest Home, musicians who have failed so thoroughly, their only inspiration is the next roach, and waitresses who would rather be anywhere than here.
Add in compulsive fruit machine players, a cook who doesn't, and a tropical storm, and the scene is set for another breathless chase through a plot with so many pieces attached, it's like the storm itself. Only funnier. Much much funnier, and even rather rude in places. Comes with a bad language warning in the preface, and a few final pages that tie up all the odd ends from the plot. Wonderful!
Add in compulsive fruit machine players, a cook who doesn't, and a tropical storm, and the scene is set for another breathless chase through a plot with so many pieces attached, it's like the storm itself. Only funnier. Much much funnier, and even rather rude in places. Comes with a bad language warning in the preface, and a few final pages that tie up all the odd ends from the plot. Wonderful!
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