Far from the parable of surf, sand, and orange juice, Mark Lane's snapshots of lifestyles within the Sunshine kingdom usually tend to characteristic gargantuan bugs than bikini-clad coeds.

Lane has spent approximately thirty years as a reporter and author for the Daytona seashore News-Journal. frequently in comparison to Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Jeff Klinkenberg, or Roy Blount Jr., during the last decade his columns have outfitted an intensely unswerving following.

Lane's writing is a version of crisp prose. yet he's tough to pin down. One second packed with cynicism from a long time of hearing fast-talking real-estate builders and attorneys, the subsequent showing a fierce defensiveness to those that could sweep away the honky-tonk bars and alligator farms that, in his opinion, outline the state.

His journeys to the all-U-can-eat buffet of Florida eccentricities comprise gardening in a five-season weather (spring, summer time, ultrasummer, fallish, and winterish), insights on domestic fortifications within the face of oncoming hurricanes (definition of an optimist: anyone who takes down his plywood), notes at the World's most famed seashore, and statement at the greatest exhibits within the country: NASCAR and nation politics.

Sandspurs will enable readers national to find certainly one of Florida's so much talented writers.