Whale Season

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Literary
Cover of the book Whale Season by N. M. Kelby, Crown/Archetype
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: N. M. Kelby ISBN: 9780307341853
Publisher: Crown/Archetype Publication: January 17, 2006
Imprint: Crown Language: English
Author: N. M. Kelby
ISBN: 9780307341853
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication: January 17, 2006
Imprint: Crown
Language: English

One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they disappeared after a run-in with “the Lord”) is won by a down-on-his-luck gambler in an unbelievable hand of poker; the area’s most well-known and long-forgotten tourist attraction is rising up from a hole in the ground; and a gun no one has used in years is suddenly in hot demand. In the steamy climes of southern Florida, you take your miracles where you can get them—and if that means being led to salvation by a schizophrenic with a rap sheet, so be it.

In the rollicking tradition of Carl Hiaasen’s Tourist Season, with the heart of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, and peopled by the kind of colorful characters who would be quite at home in any Tom Robbins novel, N. M. Kelby’s Whale Season is a sharp and funny novel made up of equal parts comic adventure and serial-killer inspired mayhem.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they disappeared after a run-in with “the Lord”) is won by a down-on-his-luck gambler in an unbelievable hand of poker; the area’s most well-known and long-forgotten tourist attraction is rising up from a hole in the ground; and a gun no one has used in years is suddenly in hot demand. In the steamy climes of southern Florida, you take your miracles where you can get them—and if that means being led to salvation by a schizophrenic with a rap sheet, so be it.

In the rollicking tradition of Carl Hiaasen’s Tourist Season, with the heart of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, and peopled by the kind of colorful characters who would be quite at home in any Tom Robbins novel, N. M. Kelby’s Whale Season is a sharp and funny novel made up of equal parts comic adventure and serial-killer inspired mayhem.

More books from Literary

Cover of the book Donne: Songs and Sonnets by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Sateene by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Hummus by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book La grande Russia portatile by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book What You're in For by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma' by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Barra’s Angel by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Ve y pon un centinela (Go Set a Watchman - Spanish Edition) by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Hollywood by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Opere by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Nie war es herrlicher zu leben by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Life Of Cicero by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Monster’s Among Us #4 by N. M. Kelby
Cover of the book Erschwerte Lektueren by N. M. Kelby
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy