For Carl Hiaasen Fans.... Skink Is Back in His New Book!

[another saigon]

and here is a rare and very enjoyable lecture from him at Harvard. :)


http://forum-network.org/lecture/carl-hiaasen-star-island?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=pbs


Carl Hiaasen: Star Island

August 2, 2010
Carl Hiaasen writer

Journalist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen as he reads and explores his new thriller, Star Island.

Having worked as a reporter, investigative journalist, and columnist for newspapers in Florida (he still writes a column for The Miami Herald), Carl Hiaasen′s fiction has always combined the page-turning atmosphere of the thriller genre with hard-hitting commentaries on modern life.

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen, as she is about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed” to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.

Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself.

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1. Just Finished It

It is so nice to continually enjoy an author. So often one or two books are terrific and the others just sail along. Not with Hiaason, yet!

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2. I know what you mean

When Elmore Leonard goes, I will be at a complete loss. There really is no one who can do dialogue like him.

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3. Library called - I'm top of the list..will start this Wed. or Thurs.