{"product_id":"the-year-of-the-gator-larry-schnell-9781545215401","title":"The Year of the Gator","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"'The Year of the Gator' is fiction at its best\"-Dr. Robert Gold, St. Augustine Record. Read the full review: August 19, 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Wright's Year of the Gator begins when he buys Bubba's by the Lake. Betting on lakefront property in Florida seems a sure thing. Adrian Wright hopes his purchase of Bubba's by the Lake near Gainesville will finally make him money, maybe enough to live his sailing dream.\u003cbr\u003eWright is quickly recruited by powerful business leaders working with the University of Florida to develop a massive sports complex on conservation land near his restaurant and marina. \u003cbr\u003eActivist Parker Greenberg is determined to stop the project and expose the land speculators hiding behind a lucrative blind trust. Wright joins the opposition and finds himself in the sights of powerful business leaders, a corrupt newspaper, a politically connected pastor, and the law.\u003cbr\u003eGreenberg warns him of the dangers of vindictive girlfriends, unruly clients, trafficking, and other temptations that have ruined previous owners of Bubba's by the Lake. As the business slides, Adrian embraces them all.\u003cbr\u003eIn a tangle of politics, money, and women, Adrian's feeble facade of financial success crumbles and he faces consequences far worse than Florida concrete and asphalt. Love, friendship, deception, and tragedy are the finale of this Florida tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novel reads like Carl Hiassen.... It is a satiric tale as the author unmasks the forces in the game of economic development.\"--Civic Media Center's Gainesville Iguana, October 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Year of the Gator\" was featured at the Florida Historical Society annual meeting, and the Gulf South History \u0026amp; Humanities Conference, 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor links to video readings, visit Larryschnell.com\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Schnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1545215405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781545215401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Larry Schnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459487871231,"sku":"9781545215401","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c87c02f0-af7e-4a5a-b3b7-481868b8ca09.jpg?v=1777409993","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-year-of-the-gator-larry-schnell-9781545215401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}