Key West Story - A Novel
"Beach-noir...Key West is beautifully captured in all its shallow, hedonistic glory, and Skwiot's ability to reveal it and its citizens in subtle, amusing ways eases the reader into this unique world...Complete with women, rum, hurricanes and a clandestine mission to Havana." -Kirkus Reviews"...the kind of book for which our island was once upon a time famed throughout the world. Hemingway...Havana...hurricanes commingling in a tale of love and redemption." -Key WestCitizen"A fantastic book on the writer's life...telling us an amazing story aboutKey West...but also carrying a deeply profound message about the writing life, about the writer's mission and the mistakes that can be fatal to a writer's career."--The Right to Publish, January 12, 2012“…[Skwiot]  has worked a little noir into the island setting rife with colorful  characters, seedy hotels and smoldering women…Hemingway fans should be  intrigued.” –examiner.com"A witty, literate and wildly exuberant take on sex, writing and life inKey West. With a benign Hemingway as life- and writing-coach, how could Rick Skwiot's hero fail to flourish?" -Rosalind Brackenbury, author of"Becoming George Sand"“This  novel gives us a new personal insight into what it might have been like  to know [Hemingway] and profit from solid advice generously offered  from the master’s creative core.”–The Green Grapevine“Having a  protagonist who is a writer is not easy to pull off–writers are not  known to be action figures after all–but Rick Skwiot does it beautifully  in 'Key West Story.' – Susan McKinney de Ortega, author of Flirting in  Spanish.