Find carl hiaasens phone number, address, and email on spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. But the humor characteristic of his writing is fully alive in this book as well, though it is tinged with morbidity thanks to the gloomy mindset of central character jack tagger. Overdrive would like to use cookies to store information on your computer to improve your user experience at our website. Basket case by carl hiaasen pdf free download ebook. Carl hiaasen once a hotshot investigative reporter, middleaged jack tagger now bangs out obituaries for a south florida daily. Publication date 2005 topics obituaries, journalists, journalists, obituaries publisher.
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Carl hiaasens basket case is a refreshing departure from his usual save the evergladesthemed novels. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers bad monkey, lucky you, nature girl, razor girl, sick puppy, skinny dip, star island, and five bestselling childrens books, chom. Jan 02, 2002 basket case is the first carl hiaasen that ive read and it was pretty good. Rob was an editor and columnist at the paper, and one of the most gentle and funny people ive ever known.
South floridas master farceur takes enough off his trademark loony tunes sick puppy, 2000, etc. With cult horror host keymaster slasher poe addeddate 20190426 21. Apr 05, 2002 the wires announce the death of james bradley stomarti, aged 39, in a diving accident. Hiaasen has received numerous awards for his work including damon runyon award from the denver press club. A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of bad monkey and razor girl. Once a hotshot investigative reporter, jack tagger now bangs out obituaries for a south florida daily, plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.
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