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The Count of the Sunshine State
Appeared in Creative Loafing, June 7, 2011
Guy de la Valdene is an honest-to-God French count, but his connections to Florida and its literary culture are about as deep as they come.
When the dust clears and historians start ranking the Great Florida Writers, we might find that Valdene is a stealth candidate on the list.
Valdene’s new book, The Fragrance of Grass (Lyons Press) is a memoir of this rich and unusual life, told through the prism of hunting.
Don’t care about hunting? Neither do I. But this book is so magnificently written that I couldn’t put it down.
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Reading Valdene is like reading the great literary journalist John McPhee. Pick up the book, consider the subject (in McPhee’s case, let’s say, geology) and you think, “No way in hell am I reading a whole book about rocks.” But then open the book and fall down the rabbit hole.
That’s how it is with Valdene.
His writing is so good that every few pages, you need to close th