Naked came the manatee / a novel by Carl Hiaasen [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Hiaasen, Carl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florida--Fiction.

Florida.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1998.

Summary:

In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head--severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history. Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102-year-old environmentalist, hard-boiled Miami reporter Britt Montero, lawyer Jake Lassiter, and a would-be dictator in exile--with ex-president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure. With bodies piling up it's anybody's guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all-star line-up of Florida's finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit--and beyond.

Contents:

Booger / Dave Barry

The big wet sleep / Les Standiford

Biscayne blues / Paul Levine

The L.A. connection / Edna Buchanan

The old woman and the sea / James W. Hall

Heading to Havana / Carolina Hospital

The lock & key / Evelyn Mayerson

Strange fish / Tananarive Due

South Beach serenade / Brian Antoni

Dance of the manatee / Vicki Hendricks

Where are you dying tonight? / John Dufresne

The odyssey / Elmore Leonard

The law of the jungle / Carl Hiaasen.

Notes:

"The chapters in this book were originally serialized in The Miami herald tropic"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

0449001245

9780449001240

OCLC:

38320846