by Carl Hiaasen · Sphere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780751543339
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«Star Island» is the humor and mystery novel by Carl Hiaasen, published by Sphere in paperback (469 pages, in English).
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye tries to relaunch her career after a drugs and alcohol scandal. To throw off the paparazzi, her double Ann DeLusia poses as her, but one night Ann is kidnapped by mistake in a Miami hotel by the obsessive photographer Bang Abbott. The novel follows the frantic race against time to rescue her, with a satirical tone about celebrity culture and the tabloid press.
Sixth installment in the Skink series, about the eccentric former governor of Florida. The novel originally appeared in 2010 and this edition is from 2012.
Aimed at readers of crime fiction with humor and at fans of the Skink series.
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for middle grade readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films, and two have been made into TV series.
