This novel could be dangerous to your ribs. Wrapped in so many comic bells and whistles that your sides hurt after a while, just from reading. Hiaasen doing it again, which is fine, bringing us in fiction the unpalatable truths that nonfiction is too polite to mention, and doing it hilariously, his harsh judgments and cold-eyed observations In that respect, "Strip Tease" is simply Mr. Not surprisingly, he finds none of it sweet.
This time out, his unforgiving gaze roves from the sleazier depths of "adult" entertainment through law enforcement as Realpolitik to governmentally price-supported In his first four novels, he studied Florida's sunny putrefaction from a range of perspectives, casting a jaundiced eye over big-money fishing contests, theme amusement parks, wildlife preservation scams, developmental sprawl, cosmetic plastic surgeryĪnd the more predatory aspects (believe me) of the tourist industry. He may be God's way of telling Florida it's gone too far. Leonard, describing a Florida similar to theirs but worse, more corrupt, more lost to hope. When he switches from journalism to the writing of novels, he becomes a kind of cross between Dave Barry and Elmore Leonard, tougher than $21.ĬARL HIAASEN is an investigative reporter for The Miami Herald, which may be why he has such a disdain for reality.
The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪugust 29, 1993, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
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