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It is just possible that despite or maybe because of buffoonish plots, outlandish characters and slapstick comedy, Tim Dorsey’s novels may be masquerading for carefully researched history lessons about Florida.
Make no mistake, “Coconut Cowboy” is just as weird and funny and silly as Dorsey’s other 19 novels about Serge A. Storms, the serial killer who is the ultimate defender of Florida and scourge of bad behavior. But Serge’s love for Florida has him constantly spouting off facts about the Sunshine State. And while Dorsey writes fiction, his Florida tidbits are real, such as an homage to the ruins of the Yulee Sugar Mill in Homosassa, the Monticello opera house and Key West’s attempts to secede from the U.S.
As usual, Dorsey’s plot is on shaky ground, but then so were the films of the Three Stooges, to whom the author is the literary counterpart. In “Coconut Cowboy,” Serge and his dim sidekick Coleman do their version of the “Easy Rider,” searching for the American Dream on a trek across Florida’s panhandle. Eventually, their travels will take them to the aptly named Wobbly, Florida, which may be the state’s most corrupt town. New residents Peter Pugliese, a geologist, and his wife Alice, an expert trial witness, find out just how shady the town is with phantom water bills, a city government that meets in a barbecue restaurant and a county bumpkin mayor with larceny in his heart. (TNS)
