Mile Marker Zero by William McKeen - 9780813062310

Mile Marker ZeroThe Moveable Feast of Key West\nAuthor(s): William McKeen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813062310, 978-0813062310\nSynopsis\nFor Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generationone defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompsonthere was another moveable feast: KeyWest, Florida.\n\nThe small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappearand succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collecti.