Kick ass
Subtitle: selected columns of Carl Hiaasen
By: edited by Diane Stevenson.
Contributors: Stevenson, Diane, 1947-
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Hiaasen, Carl -- Anecdotes.; Political corruption -- Florida.; Florida -- Politics and government -- 1951-; Florida -- Social conditions.; Florida -- Environmental conditions.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "Readers who eagerly anticipate each new Carl Hiaasen novel will relish this selection of his Miami Herald columns, written with the same dark humor and satirical edge as Tourist Season, Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, and the rest of Hiaasen's fiction. Known for evoking the disastrously flawed paradise of modern South Florida, Hiaasen proves in these columns that facts can indeed be stranger than the fiction they inspire."--BOOK JACKET.

"Beginning with "Welcome to South Florida," a chapter full of such everyday events as animal sacrifice, riots at the beach, and a shootout over limes at the supermarket, this collection organizes more than 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling the events and defining the issues that have kept the South Florida melting pot bubbling throughout the eighties and nineties. An introductory essay provides an overview of Hiaasen's career and outlines his principal concerns as a journalist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Columns originally published in the Miami herald.