this book is magnificent! it gives me my paradise fill as I wait to move there myself. a wonderful book that tansports my eyes, mind and heart back to a place i love.

If you are planning a trip to key West in the future, forget the camera! This book has it all! If you have already been there, this book is the perfect book to show friends and family the sights of Key West. Wonderful photography.

It is a truly wonderful collection to own. It has enlightened me to the fascinating stories of an all-Cuban community of cigar workers and life in Key West. It is incredible to see the rare color stone lithographic advertising art and it has shinned a new light on Florida and how it influenced the tobacco market and the market created for cigars. I loved it and await any more of its kind. It took you back to the old Key West and its legacy.
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This book was excellent. Full of detailed history on the devlopment of Key West and the introduction of the cigar industry to the United States. It explains the movement of some the popular and barely remembered names in cigars, Such as Gato and Ybor. Great conversation piece!

The book consists of many vignettes on real people who live, or have lived in Key West.

Each story touched my heart, made me laugh and sometimes cry.

June Keith is a powerful writer on the human condition. Simple, truthful, and to the point. Each story makes you think and reflect.

I also read Postcards From Paradise, in anticipation of my trip to Key West. The book, made me feel comfortable in a place I've never been before.

June Keith feels like an old friend, even though We've never met.

I half expected to meet her, and the many people she wrote about so eloquently in these two fine books. The photographs really made the stories come alive for me.

Solares Hill Newspaper 12/25/98 By Rosalind Brackenbury

June Keith's new book is a deceptively easy read. While you're being royally entertained by anecdotes, gossip and chat about Key West, what's really happening is that June Keith is sharing her own attitudes to life, which are extraordinarily kind, tolerant and intelligently liberal. More Postcards From Paradise is much more about the people who have lived and died here since the early seventies than it is about the tourist tattiness for which Key West has recently become known. If Paradise is a place that contains all of life, not some idealized destination, then Paradise is Key West. And June Keith is the perfect guide to it, because she committed herself to the place instead of just passing through; she lived and worked here as a waitress and a go-go dancer before she became a published writer, married a Conch and raised a son and made many friends. She came here in 1974 and like several other women I know (and like Goldie Hawn's character in Criss-Cross) found that topless dancing -may not be the most wonderful job in the world, but it sure beats hitting the road back to the mainland.' She has since put down her roots here, '-as one who doesn't leave.' She's also one who does not abandon people when they get sick, who puts in her word against prejudice of all sorts. The evidence of faithful friendships with old, young, black, white, gay, straight, living, dying people runs through these pages and was for me the most striking aspect of the book. It isn't written as a memoir or autobiography, but when you've read it you truly know this warm-hearted, principled and funny woman who has been entertaining you for 255 pages with her unpretentious snippets of Key West life. The wit and toughness, as well as the optimism of this book, show Keith as a survivor; but the lightness of tone doesn't quite conceal the fact that the road less traveled has at times been a hard one. Buy this book for friends, family and out-of-town visitors. It's impossible not to enjoy it.

Hopefully we will continue to hear from The Key West Co-op. These insightful writers capture the essence of what is wacky and wonderful about Key West.

I am one the the group of 12 who cooperatively wrote and published this book of south Florida short stories. Living in what some call "paradise" produces a unique life experience which we want to share with those living more traditional lifestyles. You'll enjoy a tropical getaway with each story. Read them slowly, they'll last a long time in your memory.

Sins of a father, lies from the past that could make or break a romance. This book has every thing and more. Once you pick it up and start it, you cannot put it down. Worth reading again and again.

This book reaches out to the reader and creates the imagines of lost, love and confusion. This is a got to read book.

I was in Key West Florida a few times. I found this calendar among many to be the most informative, useful and well designed. I had bought two calendars - one for myself as a souvenir and one for my daughter as a gift - she loved it. This is more than just a calendar - it's an information source, a guide and a collectable item. A very beautiful gift that I may buy more of for friends and familly in the near future.

Normally I read mostly history, not fiction. This book however caught my eye for a few of reasons. Firstly, as I have already mentioned, I like history. I also have a great interest in the Naval Academy and have always been interested in Key West.

While I don't usually read fiction, I have to say this one was exceptional. It has helped open my eyes to the fact that you can learn by reading fictional accounts.

The best books are the ones that make you feel deeply and this one does. Naturally, I laughed a lot, that's the nature of Callahan's in any of it's incarnations. But I cried, too, and that reminded me of the roots of what the Callahan stories were about.

Now that the regulars have all settled down in Key West, enjoy this story of just a few days in the life of the denizens of "The Place". There are sprinklings of literary references throughout that are a lot of fun, too. Enjoy!

This novel flips reality over showing us that what we think is real is often an illusion, and that what we think is an illusion is often the reality of the situation. The story is a quixotic, sometimes exotic examination of life reminiscent of Kerouac and Cervantes. This author transforms the ordinary, mundane everyday into something extraordinary. A good read! Also, good to read again-like a second glass of wine from a fine bottle -the book speaks to one on different levels. It does give one pause to consider if the illusion is in fact the reality of our lives.

An extremely well written book with lots of pictures and charts. I used it to sail my 28' boat from Coconut Grove to Key West with my wife and 9 month old son. It's great for gunkholing and points out many of the unknown facts about the local area. And besides, Frank's a nice man...I can say that on authority as I have an autographed copy.