Kick Ass (Hiaasen book)

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Kick Ass

First edition
Author	Carl Hiaasen, Diane Stevenson (ed.)
Language	English
Publisher	University Press of Florida
Publication date	October 1999
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Softcover)
Pages	471 pages
ISBN	0813017173
OCLC	41712895
Dewey Decimal	975.9'063
Followed by	Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns

Kick Ass is the first of three books which highlight some of Carl Hiaasen's best columns in the newspaper Miami Herald. It was published in 1999, and followed by Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001) and Dance of the Reptiles (2014).

The editor, Diane Stevenson, selected columns that focused on Hiaasen's views on growth and government in Florida. Kirkus described Hiaasen as "a crystalline, pitiless seer of human weakness" and stated the book is "deeply satisfying, both for what it reveals of the serious priorities of a supposedly light novelist and for the outrageous epic of Florida profiteering and entropy within."[1]

References

1. "KICK ASS: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen". Kirkus. Retrieved 22 March 2019.