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050	0	0	_aF316.2 _b.H49 1999
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100	1		_aHiaasen, Carl
245	1	0	_aKick ass _b: selected columns of Carl Hiaasen _c/ edited by Diane Stevenson
260			_aGainesville _b: University Press of Florida _c, c1999.
300			_axxiv, 447 p. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aColumns originally published in the Miami herald.
520			_a"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.
600	1	0	_aHiaasen, Carl
650		0	_aPolitical corruption
651		0	_aFlorida _x--Politics and government _y--1951-
651		0	_aFlorida _x--Social life and customs
651		0	_aFlorida _x--Environmental conditions
700	1		_aStevenson, Diane _d, 1947-
942			_cMO
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