Southern Comfort

by Michael Largo

"Southern Comfort is realistic convincing characters, brilliant dialogue; it's set in the Florida swampland where there's endless mud, dampness; night roads, dim rooms, fishing for catfish and deepsea fishing for sailfish; alliagators and slamming screen doors. A profusion of detailed description celebrates life while, thematically. Largo explores the mystery of death as transformation." LIBRARY JOURNAL

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Michael Largo is an expert on the anomalous ways of American dying. He is the author of The Portable Obituary (a Bram Stoker Award Finalist), Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die (winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction), and three novels. He was the former editor of New York Poetry and the researcher/archivist for the film company Allied Artists. The son of an NYPD narcotics detective, Largo was the owner and founder of the landmark NYC East Village, St Marks Bar & Grill during the early 80s, where he served an eclectic clientele, including Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Larry Rivers, and Keith Richards, to name a few, allowing an insider’s look and unusual vantage to observe both genius and heroin--in all its deviations--and its impact on contemporary culture.

Michael Largo has been collecting statistics and information on the American way of dying for over a decade. He is a member of The Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America amd Horror Writers of America, and The American Historical Association.

Reviews

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s a truthful book. I can only take so much of drinking, hunting gators and raccoons and fishing.
I lived in Florida for a few years. I didn’t like Florida much. This was about a part I really didn’t like.