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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 brilliant and nationally acclaimed 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.Beginning with "Welcome to South Florida," a chapter introducing such everyday events as animal sacrifice, riots at the beach, and a shootout over limes at the supermarket, this collection organizes over 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling the events and defining the issues that have kept the South Florida melting pot bubbling throughout the 80s and 90s. An introductory essay provides an overview of Hiaasen s career and outlines his principal concerns as a journalist.Since its inception in 1985, Hiaasen s twice-weekly "baseball-bat-to-the-forehead" column has become enormously popular for its passionate conviction and willingness to confront powerful interests in pursuit of the public good. Amid the corruption and chaos of a city on the edge, Hiaasen s pointblank honesty and clear articulation of what s right have secured him wide respect across the community s many racial and ethnic divides as well as the admiration of his peers, who compare him to A. J. Leibling, I. F. Stone, and H. L. Mencken.In addition to South Florida color and world-class journalism, readers of "Kick Ass" will find one of Florida s staunchest defenders in action, and they ll take great pleasure in watching him work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kick Ass: Selected Columns. To get started finding Kick Ass: Selected Columns, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: University Press of Florida

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0813037891

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 brilliant and nationally acclaimed 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.Beginning with "Welcome to South Florida," a chapter introducing such everyday events as animal sacrifice, riots at the beach, and a shootout over limes at the supermarket, this collection organizes over 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling the events and defining the issues that have kept the South Florida melting pot bubbling throughout the 80s and 90s. An introductory essay provides an overview of Hiaasen s career and outlines his principal concerns as a journalist.Since its inception in 1985, Hiaasen s twice-weekly "baseball-bat-to-the-forehead" column has become enormously popular for its passionate conviction and willingness to confront powerful interests in pursuit of the public good. Amid the corruption and chaos of a city on the edge, Hiaasen s pointblank honesty and clear articulation of what s right have secured him wide respect across the community s many racial and ethnic divides as well as the admiration of his peers, who compare him to A. J. Leibling, I. F. Stone, and H. L. Mencken.In addition to South Florida color and world-class journalism, readers of "Kick Ass" will find one of Florida s staunchest defenders in action, and they ll take great pleasure in watching him work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Kick Ass: Selected Columns. To get started finding Kick Ass: Selected Columns, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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