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Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
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by DAVID RIEFF
Sales Rank: 1457235
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List Price: $14.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 248 pages
Published by: University Press of Florida January 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813017653
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813017655
Book Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Although it doesn't match the colorful ambience of T. D. Allman's Miami: City of the Future, observed PW, this work by a Farrar, Straus & Giroux editor is a "clear, insightful book of firsthand impressions of Florida's once-heralded Magic City and what its flamboyant Latinization since the 1960s means."
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
After reading, I felt rather embarrassed for the author, and also slightly for myself for having bought this book. The author comes across a bit like a somewhat depressed, crotchety grandpa who hasn't seen much of the world, as shown by his endless, adulatory and self-congratulatory admiration of those 'crazy', 'exotic' Cubans. I wish I'd marked the page where he laments that these new, more Americanized Cuban teenage girls no longer have the admirably large busts and buttocks of the previous generation. (!) The author also goes in for a mixture of self-pity mixed with scorn for others, which makes him sound like something of a jerk. For instance, p. 119: "Southwest Miami is often a depressing place, an anthology of middle-class cliches--the bike on the lawn, Daddy coming home from a hard day at the 'oficina', Mom with her list of complaints, dinner smells." Please! The author's portrayal of average family life as a depressing cliche says much more about his dyspeptic state of mind than anything about Miami. The book also contains some rather dated references, such as his scorn for Phil Donahue (described on p. 74 as "a combination of Mick Jagger, a parish priest, and a gibbon on Ritalin"--yes, Phil Donahue!), rap music, (described on p.179 as "the chant of a mugger or a lunatic") and his embarrassing fascination with that exciting and novel show, "Miami Vice". There are much better books about Miami and its history. Sorry, gramps.
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