Книга: Carl Hiaasen «Tourist Season»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" Book DescriptionThe only trace of the first victim was his Shriner`s fez washed up on the Miami Beach. The second victim, the head of the city`s chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning ... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder ... in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of anti-development fanatics and a very, hungry crocodile. Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, and Native Tongue, by Carl Hiaasen, are also available from Random House AudioBooks. Skin Tight is available as a Random House Price-Less Audio. Edward Asner won five Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Lou Grant -- first on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on Lou Grant. He has garnered much acclaim for his many television, theatrical, and film performances. He has previously read Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, and Skin Tight, all by Carl Hiaasen, for... ISBN:0446695718 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2005)
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Carl Hiaasen
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Carl Hiaasen (pronEng|ˈhaɪəsɛn) (born
Biography
Born and raised in Plantation, After two years as a reporter for "Cocoa Today" out of In the 1980s he embarked on a career as a novelist. He co-wrote three thrillers with fellow-journalist Bill Montalbano: "Powder Burn" (1981), "Trap Line" (1981), and "A Death in China" (1986). After Montalbano became a foreign correspondent, Hiaasen wrote his first solo novel, " Hiaasen's fiction mirrors his concerns as a journalist and Floridian. His novels have been classified as "environmental thrillers" and are usually found on the mystery shelves in bookshops, although they can just as well be read as Hiaasen's Florida is a hive of greedy businessmen, corrupt politicians, dumb blondes, apathetic retirees, intellectually challenged tourists, hard-luck redneck cooters, and militant In addition to writing, Hiaasen also does speaking engagements and lectures. His first venture into writing children's novels was " Over the past six years Hiaasen has been working with British theatre producers for the adaptation of his bestseller "Lucky You"; the resulting play includes music by Bibliography Fiction * " With hort stories * " [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1028052/index.htm Tart of Darkness] " (2003, " Non-fiction * " Collections * " Awards "Hoot" has won both a References External links * [http://www.carlhiaasen.com Carl Hiaasen's homepage] Источник: Carl Hiaasen
* "Double Whammy" (1987)
* "Skin Tight" (1989)
* "Native Tongue" (1991)
* "Strip Tease" (1993) (filmed in 1996 as "Striptease" by
* "Stormy Weather" (1995)
* "Lucky You" (1997)
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* "Basket Case" (2002)
* "Hoot" (2002) (young adult novel) (released as a movie in May 2006 by director
* "Skinny Dip" (2004)
* "Flush" (2005) (young adult novel)
* "Nature Girl" (2006)
* "Scat" (2009) (young adult novel)
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* [http://www.miamiherald.com/424/index.html Carl Hiaasen's columns in "The Miami Herald"]
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Tourist Season — infobox Book | name = Tourist Season title orig = translator = image caption = author = Carl Hiaasen cover artist = George Corsillo country = United States language = English series = genre = Crime novel publisher = G. P. Putnam s Sons release… … Wikipedia
tourist season — time of the year during which tourists travel abroad (typically the summer) … English contemporary dictionary
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tourist — tour‧ist [ˈtʊərst ǁ ˈtʊr ] noun [countable] TRAVEL someone who travels to visit a place for pleasure or a holiday: • About 40,000 Americans go there each year, mostly for business but some as tourists. • The city relies on its tourist industry… … Financial and business terms
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