Synopses & Reviews
Independently wealthy eco-terrorist Twilly Spree teaches a flagrant litterbug a lesson--and leaves the offender's precious Range Rover swarming with hungry dung beetles. When he discovers the litterer is one of the most powerful political fixers in Florida, the real Hiaasen-style fun begins.
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"Hiaasen's usual cast of zany characters shows up en masse in Sick Puppy, a frolicking sendup of ecological subterfuge, Florida's fabled politics and downright human foibles." USA Today
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"Carl Hiaasen's books are so much fun, it's a wonder they're still legal." Newsday
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"A sexy, fast-paced romp." The Financial Times
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"It's hard not to have a good time with this one." TIME
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"Hiaasen delivers everything his fans want. He's still funny as hell and mad as hell; his myriad plot twists won't give you a moment's peace, and his characters are kinkier than anything you could order on late-night TV." Miami Herald
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"Carl Hiaasen is a lot like Evelyn Waugh. Both simmer with rage, both are consumed with the same overwhelming vision...[both] write the funniest English of this century." Washington Post Book World
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"A comic romp that is thoroughly enjoyable.... Hiaasen's novels seethe with fury against the despoilers of Florida, but his perverse comedy cuts the message-mongering like cream cuts Kahlua."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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"Laugh-out-loud funny....If Carl Hiaasen isn't the funniest environmentalist in the country, i don't know who is." Detroit News/Free Press
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"Delights...begins with an absurd premise and then gets even nuttier."
New York Times Book Review
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"From start to finish, Sick Puppy is a howl."
Barbara Hoffman, New York Post
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"Hiaasen's hijinks are outrageous, unbelievable, and thought-provoking. The worrysome grains of truth and reality in the story give pause." Library Journal
About the Author
Carl Hiaasen turned his hand to fiction in the early eighties. His first novel, Tourist Season, was published in 1986 and named "one of the ten best destination reads of all time" by GQ Magazine. He is the author of five other best-selling novels, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Strip Tease and Stormy Weather.
Kids Q&A
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