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Overview

A hilarious new novel of greed and corruption from the bestselling author of Strip Tease. The story focuses on southern Florida at the height of the tourist season, when a ferocious hurricane hits--luring con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be saviours like hyenas to the lion's kill. "Hiaasen (hilself is a one-man force of nature".--Variety. Major advertising, including key city radio and print ads in The New York Times Book Review and Miami Herald.

When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. 2 cassettes.

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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. Transforming a suburban sprawl into a lawless frontier, the hurricane puts on a collision course a demented cast of tourists, scam artists and eccentrics: New York ad exec Max Lamb, who decides to spice up his Orlando honeymoon by taking his bride and his camcorder into the teeth of the storm; Skink, the swamp-dwelling former Florida governor (last seen in Native Tongue) who kidnaps Max in an effort to teach him to respect the land; Edie March, a seductive grifter who hatches a half-baked personal-injury scam with the help of Snapper, a sadistic ex-con; and Augustine, the altruistic son of a jailed drug smuggler, who juggles skulls to relax. Also mobilized are a mob enforcer with a penchant for crucifixions, a voodoo-practicing building inspector and a number of menacing escaped animals. In his sixth novel, less a straightforward thriller than a sprawling slice of life, Hiaasen dexterously resolves his many subplots, uniting the principals in a climactic chase across the swampland-while adding sting to his perpetual theme: the unrelenting depredation of Florida's cultural and natural heritage. 200,000 first printing. (Aug.)
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Take one devastating Florida hurricane, a New York couple on their honeymoon, a skull-juggling but sensitive guy, one former governor turned Everglades hermit, two small-time con artists, a corrupt building inspector, two state troopers, a hapless insurance agent, and what do you have? The recipe for Hiaasen's (Native Tongue, LJ 9/1/91) sixth novel, a delightful romp that is by turns hilarious and moving. These strange characters maneuver through a broken landscape as if born to it, and the author's control of both style and narrative keeps the novel from slipping into silliness. The crimes plotted are minor aspects of a fiction that explores the intersection of the grotesque and the human. Buy wherever good fiction is read. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/15/95.]-A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446677165
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 3/1/2001
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 476,208
  • Product dimensions: 5.25 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
In his thrilling and hilarious mysteries, Carl Hiaasen does for the Florida Coast what Raymond Chandler did for L.A., embracing it in all its steamy surrealness, and elevating it to a kind of iconographic literary landscape.

Biography

When one thinks of the classics of pulp fiction, certain things -- gruff, amoral antiheroes, unflinching nihilism, and a certain melodramatic self-seriousness -- inevitably come to mind. However, the novels of Carl Hiaasen completely challenge these pulpy conventions. While the pulp of yesteryear seems forever chiseled in an almost quaint black and white world, Hiaasen's books vibrate with vivid color. They are veritable playgrounds for wild characters that flout clichés: a roadkill-eating ex-governor, a bouncer/assassin who takes care of business with a Weed Wacker, a failed alligator wrestler named Sammy Tigertail. Furthermore, Hiaasen infuses his absurdist stories with a powerful dose of social and political awareness, focusing on his home turf of South Florida with an unflinching keenness.

Hiaasen was born and raised in South Florida. During the 1970s, he got his start as a writer working for Cocoa Today as a public interest columnist. However, it was his gig as an investigative reporter for The Miami Herald that provided him with the fundamentals necessary for a career in fiction. "I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid," Hiaasen told Barnes & Noble.com. "To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills -- you learn to listen, you learn to take notes -- everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels."

Hiaasen made the transition from journalism to fiction in 1981 with the help of fellow reporter Bill Montalbano. Hiaasen and Montalbano drew upon all they had learned while covering the Miami beat in their debut novel Powder Burn, a sharp thriller about the legendary Miami cocaine trade, which the New York Times declared an "expertly plotted novel." The team followed up their debut with two more collaborative works before Hiaasen ventured out on his own with Tourist Season, an offbeat murder mystery that showcased the author's idiosyncratic sense of humor.

From then on, Hiaasen's sensibility has grown only more comically absurd and more socially pointed, with a particular emphasis on the environmental exploitation of his beloved home state. In addition to his irreverent and howlingly funny thrillers (Double Whammy, Sick Puppy, Nature Girl, etc), he has released collections of his newspaper columns (Kick Ass, Paradise Screwed) and penned children's books (Hoot, Flush). With his unique blend of comedy and righteousness ("I can't be funny without being angry."), the writer continues to view hallowed Florida institutions -- from tourism to real estate development -- with a decidedly jaundiced eye. As Kirkus Reviews has wryly observed, Hiassen depicts "...the Sunshine State as the weirdest place this side of Oz."

Good To Know

Perhaps in keeping with his South Floridian mindset, Hiaasen keeps snakes as housepets. He says on his web site, "They're clean and quiet. You give them rodents and they give you pure, unconditional indifference."

Hiaasen is also a songwriter: He's co-written two songs, "Seminole Bingo" and "Rottweiler Blues", with Warren Zevon for the album Mutineer. In turn, Zevon recorded a song based on the lyrics Hiaasen had written for a dead rock star character in Basket Case.

In Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl, he gets the opportunity to deal with a long-held fantasy. "I'd always fantasized about tracking down one of these telemarketing creeps and turning the tables -- phoning his house every night at dinner, the way they hassle everybody else," he explains on his web site. "In the novel, my heroine takes it a whole step farther. She actually tricks the guy into signing up for a bogus ‘ecotour' in Florida, and then proceeds to teach him some manners. Or tries."

    1. Hometown:
      Tavernier, Florida
    1. Education:
      Emory University; B.A., University of Florida, 1974
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2006

    Funny read

    At first I was a little hesitant with this book, but it proved me wrong. My first Carl Hiassen book was skinny dip and I was totally addicted. The same happened with this book. The characters are just so unique...especially Skink. You get so into the story that you never want to put it down no matter how much your eyes hurt...

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

    Other things I wish B & N carried

    I loved the book. It was fantastically funny!!! I, however, have been looking for this great game that I heard of and I understand that you all don't carry it. StoryClub games, Girls Night Edition. Can you look into this for me? So many of my friends are in neighborhood Mom's night groups and they are playing this. I would rather buy it from B & N and give you the business than order from the website. Please advise. Thank you so much.

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  • Posted April 4, 2010

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    Wacky trip into a post-hurricane Florida

    I had heard a lot about Carl Hiaasen, especially from some friends whose taste in books I trust, and so on their suggestion, I picked up Stormy Weather. Because his books are shelved in the mystery section of most bookstores I visit, I expected this one to read like a mystery. Instead it seemed more of a combination satire, slice of life, and environmental commentary. Even so, or perhaps precisely because of these things, I enjoyed the book enormously. Hiaasen's writing is clever and deft, full of a vivid eccentricity of people and place that effortlessly drew me in. I look forward to reading more of his work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2007

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    This is wild and wacky stuff if I've ever seen it, with more than a tinge of backswamp, corrupt characters. I like it best when the animals--human and otherwise--get loose because of the hurricane, and true Jumanji-like madness ensues, in a posthurripocalyptic stew of Shakespearean insanity. Greed, corruption, lust, betrayal....plus some really shady insurance deals! Overall, great stuff for the reader, not so great for the fictional insurance companies.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 1, 2007

    Good but not his best

    I've pretty much read all of Hiassen's books and thought this was one pretty good but not his best. I actually think he just had slightly too many characters in this story with their own separate storylines that kind of interrupted the flow of the story. Hiaasen though is an incredible storyteller with a unique and twisted sense of humor and I am looking forward to future stories from him.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 12, 2006

    We are amused

    Our book club recently took on three VERY good books. The first was 'Life of Pi,' by Martel, which most people have read. The second was McCrae's 'Katzenjammer' (hilarious by the way), and the third was this excellent novel, 'Stormy Weather.' This was my first Hiaason novel, but it certainly won't be my last. I had heard about Hiassen, and that his books can get pretty 'out there' at times, but I didn't find this one to be offensive. A little off the wall, but not something I wouldn't recommend to another reader. The characters in this novel are what make it great---really off-the wall stuff here with Augustine who juggles skulls, to the unnerving Skink. The list goes on and on, and the book is, essentially, character driven--what you want in a novel. The main story centers around Max and Bonnie--a couple on their honeymoon---who are in 'Disney World during a hurricane. The wife wants to get on with the after-wedding items, but husband Max wants to get footage of said hurricane, or rather the destruction it has caused. Enter turmoil. The title is not only appropriate for the storm and all its aftermath, but the relationships in the book as well. Hiassen is a master storyteller and I'd recommend this easy and entertaining read to anyone.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 22, 2005

    Another great book

    In Stormy Weather a hurricane hits southern Florida wiping out trailer parks, houses and anything in its path. Looters and con artists are of course drawn like magnets trying to prosper from the victims, as are honeymooners Max and Bonny Lamb. Max drags his reluctant new bride to the devastation so he can get it all on film to impress his yuppie friends back in New York but disappears while following an escaped monkey. Ex governor now living in the wilderness Skeet knows where he is as he has taken him prisoner to teach him some lessons. Meanwhile a dishonest caravan salesman is planning on how to survive the vengeance of his customers who have lost their homes and their loved ones while con artist roofing contractors take deposits and never return to their victims until they rip off the wrong people. With the same great writing you¿ll find in either Elmore Leonard¿s books ¿Get Shorty,¿ or McCrae¿s ¿A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens,¿ you¿re bound to enjoy this Hiassen book. I did.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2005

    A Pulitzer Prize!!!!!!!!!!!

    One of the best books that I have ever read. You just have to to love the wacky cast of characters, especially 'Skink'. A truly Great Book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 17, 2003

    this was ODD not funny

    This was the first book of his that I've read and the last. I was looking for a good mystery and Stormy Weather had no mystery. What it did have was way too many unlikable characters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 11, 2003

    It doesn't get any better than this!

    One of my favorite books by my favorite author, Carl Hiaasen. A 'must read' for all Floridians who would like to have the state to themselves, just for once, without 'Northern' invasion. I laugh myself silly when telling people what the book is about! Everyone needs a governor like Clinton Tyree, otherwise known as 'Skink' to set things straight.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 23, 2003

    Excellent book and even better author!

    Being born and raised in Miami (god, did I really just admit that), I have had the gut busting pleasure of reading Mr. Hiassen's books from the beginning and the wonderful articles for the Miami Herald. Stormy Weather (which I am reordering since someone borrowed my first copy and never returned), brought tears of laughter to my eyes. For I remember well the tourists that came down here after Hurricane Andrew. And Skink, what can I say about Skink. I would vote for him if he ran for office! Just have to make sure Trooper Jim goes with him again! This book is fast paced and gripping. Holding onto the reader from the front cover to the end.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 3, 2001

    Not his best, but plenty of thrills

    Hiaasen's 'Stormy Weather' takes place after an unusually vicious hurricane strikes Florida. Hiaasen uses a marvelous plot technique involving crooked contractors, crooked politicians (and one honest one), a voyeuristic honeymooning couple from Up North, a household of squatters, and an insurance adjuster who makes the adjustment from reliable to crooked. The author then sets the whole plot mechanism to work very well. Perhaps too well? The book was a good fast read but I didn't sympathize with any of the characters. There is plenty of humor in this book, but none of it is on-the-edge; all of it is black. I think a little regular humor is needed to set the black humor into relief.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2000

    Hiasson at his best

    If you like an easy fun read that doesn't take itself too seriously this is it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 4, 2000

    Hiaasen's Very Best

    Can't recomend this book highly enough! Laugh out loud funny.

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