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Where Is Joe Merchant? Study Guide

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by Jimmy Buffett
About 12 pages (3,625 words)
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Literary Precedents

Buffett has been strongly influenced by literary figures such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and his brother-inlaw, novelist Tom McGuane. In recent years he has enjoyed the works of Bruce Chatwin, thus Buffett's playful use of myth and magic in Where Is Joe Merchant? may reflect some of Chatwin's and Marquez's influence.

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Where Is Joe Merchant? from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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