Margaritaville

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Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factional Fictions

By Jimmy Buffett Harvest Books (Paperback, $14.00, ISBN: 0156026988, 6/2002) Having grown up on Jimmy Buffett’s songs in the ’70s, especially “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” I read with interest his first book Tales from Margaritaville. Not surprisingly, it had the same wonderful style and spirit of his songs—funny, original, free-spirited. It seemed to me that Jimmy Buffett was truly living—and chronicling—the American Dream. But what I found most interesting was a story I heard during one of his first bookstore signings (in Virginia or Georgia, I think). The day of the book-signing, hundreds and hundreds of people showed up and the line snaked around several blocks. But what was truly interesting was the mix of people—teenagers, aging hippies, moms and dads, blue-haired old ladies—all proud to call themselves “Parrotheads.” Buffett’s new book A Pirate Looks at Fifty is currently a bestseller proving that Jimmy Buffett’s appeal is as timeless as he is. —Maureen O\u27Nealhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1316/thumbnail.jp

A Salty Piece of Land

A Novel by Jimmy Buffett (Little, Brown hardcover, $27.95, ISBN: 0316908452, 11/2004; Back Bay Books paperback,$14.95, ISBN: 031605996X, 11/2005; Little, Brown paperback, $7.99, ISBN: 031601429X, 11/2006) There’s a Condé Nast Traveler article fighting to get out of bestseller Buffett’s first new novel in a decade, a groovily laid-back, ramblingly anecdotal, sun-soaked bit of Caribbean escapism that his Parrothead fans will relish like another chorus of “Margaritaville.” Tully Mars, a 40-ish ex-cowboy turned guide at the Lost Boys Fishing Lodge island resort, undertakes various sojourns around the Caribbean, to Mayan ruins, a jungle safari camp, a spring break bacchanal in Belize. Nothing much happens—“That day, we spent the rest of the daylight hours on the shallow waters of Ascension Bay and the lagoon amid incredible natural beauty unlike anything I had ever seen before” is about as busy as it gets—except that Tully meets a parade of colorful natives and expatriates, including a Mayan medicine man, a British commando and a 103-year-old woman who skippers a sailing schooner and wants to restore a historic lighthouse on Cayo Loco, the titular island. The characters are all hospitality entrepreneurs, and Buffett (A Pirate Looks at Fifty) also gives them shaggy-dog anecdotes, tidbits of Caribbean history and desultory life lessons to relate. There are glimmers of plot—bounty hunters, loves lost and found—but mostly Tully has little to do but savor the accommodations and atmospherics of tourist locales while the sea washes him with waves of love, happiness and maturity as infallibly as the tides. This book is as cheery and tropical as Buffet’s music. —Publishers Weekly. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1017/thumbnail.jp

Swine Not: A Novel Pig Tale

By Jimmy Buffet with illustrations by Helen Bransford Hardcover, Little Brown and Co., ISBN: 9780316114028, $21.99, 5/13/2008https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1315/thumbnail.jp