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The Life and Times of a Modern Sea Gypsy
American Paradise Publishing
October 1991
On Sale: May 18, 2008
154 pages
ISBN: 0963106015
EAN: 9780963106018
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Chasing the Horizon is a delightfully demented, outrageously funny, often touching, and continuously shocking book about growing up aboard a funky old schooner, and becoming a confirmed Caribbean sea gypsy. Capn Fattys story is too bizarre to be fiction. Father wears floral skirts; mother is a tad vague. Sister Carole isnt interested in her millionaire suitor, shes too busy smooching with the kid in the cesspool truck. Their strange live-aboard boat caravan includes Mort the Mortician, Backwards Bernie, Ruby Red the Conman, Barefoot Benny, Geeper Creeper, Para the Paranoid, Lusty Laura, Xlax, Shark Boy, the Pawtucket Pirate, Bait Broad, Colonel Crispy, Scupper Lips, Bob the Broker, the Pirate Queen, Otto the Owner, the Twin Slaves of Green Slime even a terribly long- winded fellow named (Hurricane) Hugo. All seem hell-bent on avoiding the cops, the creeps, each other, and especially, the Dreaded Dream Crushers. Dive in!
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