![]() (Think Bird Key, expanded by dredge-and-fill operations in the late 1950s MacDonald even calls the group SOBs, Save Our Bays, based on a real citizens’ group.) Filmed here in 1984 with Ed Harris as the reporter, Blair Brown as the widow and Richard Jordan as the commissioner, A Flash of Green is a title referencing more than that occasional brief flash seen at sunset it’s also the color of money. Long before Condominium, and before the Travis McGee books, MacDonald wrote this heartfelt story of a newspaper reporter in “Palm Bay,” Florida, who gets caught between a corrupt county commissioner and a friend’s widow, who’s part of a group trying to save a bay from-you guessed it-another greedy developer. But Condominium, a non-McGee novel, stands on its own as an archetype of tales dealing with greedy developers, under-the-table payoffs, dirty secrets, condo board associations, and, ultimately, the really big storm, described in heart-pounding prose, that’s going to wipe out the poorly built Golden Sands on Fiddler Key (read: Siesta Key, where MacDonald lived.) No less a Florida writer than Carl Hiaasen says of MacDonald that he was “the first modern writer to nail Florida dead-center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise and breath-grabbing beauty.” Yep.Ī Flash of Green, by John D. ![]() ![]() Of course, we start the list with a novel by one of the best-known of our authors, who penned the Travis McGee series about a “salvage consultant” who also sees himself as a knight in rusty armor. Looking for the perfect end of summer read? Check out this list, compiled by Kay Kipling of Sarasota Magazine, which includes books related to Sarasota written by authors who have lived here.Ĭondominium, by John D.
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