· by Carl Hiaasen ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 24, A hurricane, passing over southern Florida, leaves in its untidy wake the usual Hiaasen carnival of knaves and fools. Listen up now, because there's going to be a quiz on how the hurricane changes everybody's plans. Animal farmer Augustine Mojaki suddenly finds himself on the road hunting down a covey of escaped snakes, monkeys, rare Author: Kirkus Reviews. The hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own continues in Stormy Weather, where there is no calm eye/5(). Carl Hiaasen turned his hand to fiction in the early eighties. His first novel, Tourist Season,was published in 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 /5().
By Carl Hiaasen FICTION Star Island Nature Girl Skinny Dip Basket Case Sick Puppy Lucky You Stormy Weather Strip Tease Native Tongue Skin Tight Double Whammy Tourist Season FOR YOUNG READERS Scat Flush Hoot NONFICTION The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World Kick Ass: Selected Columns. Stormy Weather is a novel by Carl Hiaasen. It takes place in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida and concerns the tragic (though sometimes comic) effects of the disaster, including insurance scams, street fights, hunt for food and shelter, corrupt bureaucracy, a ravaged environment and disaster tourists. The hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own continues in Stormy Weather, where there is no calm eye. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Hiaasen's latest madcap romp across southern Florida presents an apocalyptic panorama of the region in the wake of a storm much like Hurricane Andrew.
by Carl Hiaasen ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 24, A hurricane, passing over southern Florida, leaves in its untidy wake the usual Hiaasen carnival of knaves and fools. Listen up now, because there's going to be a quiz on how the hurricane changes everybody's plans. Animal farmer Augustine Mojaki suddenly finds himself on the road hunting down a covey of escaped snakes, monkeys, rare birds, and the occasional water buffalo. The hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own continues in Stormy Weather, where there is no calm eye. Other than the late Charles Willeford ("Miami Blues"), no one captures this world more accurately, vividly and hilariously in fiction than Carl Hiaasen. "Stormy Weather", written in , is the zanier side of the truly horrific Hurricane Andrew, a vicious satire of the darker side of my adopted Sunshine State, a poke in the eye of the public "servants" and developers who built (or allowed) a world of match-stick and balsa wood homes, and those.
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