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"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer,
New York Times Magazine,
Mar. 12,
1978
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ZIN Product Number: 10161566
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
ISBN: 0609606948
Release Date: Jan 10, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise — and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and indelible portraits of people who live and work on a sliver of beauty set in the Caribbean Sea. It's about the maddening, exhausting, outlandish complications of trying to live the simple life — and the joy that comes when you somehow pull it off.
The story begins when Bob and Melinda Blanchard sell their successful Vermont food business and decide, perhaps impulsively, to get away from it all. Why not open a beach bar and grill on Anguilla, their favorite Caribbean island? One thing leads to another and the little grill turns into an enchanting restaurant that quickly draws four-star reviews and a celebrity-studded clientele eager for Melinda's delectable cooking. Amid the frenetic pace of the Christmas "high season," the Blanchards and their kitchen staff — Clinton and Ozzie, the dancing sous-chefs; Shabby, the master lobster-wrangler; Bug, the dish-washing comedian — come together like a crack drill team. And even in the midst of hilarious pandemonium, there are moments of bliss.
As the Blanchards learn to adapt to island time, they become ever more deeply attached to the quirky rhythms and customs of their new home. Until disaster strikes: Hurricane Luis, a category-4 storm with two-hundred-mile-an-hour gusts, devastates Anguilla. Bob and Melinda survey the wreckage of their beloved restaurant and wonder whether leaving Anguilla, with itsinnumerable challenges, would be any easier than walking out on each other. Affectionate, seductive, and very funny, A Trip to the Beach is a love letter to a place that becomes both home and escape.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Great Book 
-- A reviewer, a wannabe Chef, March 19, 2001
Also Recommended: Walking on Walnuts
Very Entertaining and Inspiring!
-- G Williams, August 1, 2002
Also Recommended: Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
CORNBREAD RECIPE WAS DELICIOUS!
-- Linda Newton, fascinated with island living, March 29, 2001
Also Recommended: Robin Crusoe by Daniel Defoe An Island to Oneself by Tom Neale
Great Adventure
-- Terry, a lawyer, January 19, 2001
Also Recommended: Candid Confessions by Patrick Maher
Outstanding!
-- V.Stephen Trial, future island inhabitant!, January 19, 2001
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