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Nature Girl

By Carl Hiaasen

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| Hardcover | 9780307262998

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Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and Continue

Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack (whose mismatched fingers are proof that sexual harassment in the workplace is a bad idea). And he doesn’t know he’s being followed by Honey’s still-smitten former drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old-son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they don’t know they’re intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half white–half Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed who’s dying to be his hostage . . .

        Will Honey be able to make a mensch of a “greedhead”? Will Fry be able to protect her from Piejack—and herself? Will Sammy achieve his true Seminole self? Will Eugenie ever get to the beach? Will the Everglades survive the wild humans? All the answers are revealed in the delectably outrageous mayhem that propels this novel to its Hiaasen-of-the-highest-order climax.

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  • NATURE GIRL

    One of the few things that put people’s hackles up is telemarketers. They can be unscrupulous, tiresome and down right exasperating at times when they try to sell you dubious products. In Nature Girl the latest book by Carl Hiaasen, the telemarketers ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - NATURE GIRL by Carl Hiaasen

    • Read an Excerpt Carl Hiaasen, who pens a weekly column for The Miami Herald, certainly follows the adage "Write what you know." While he occasionally covers nationally significant events, Hiaasen generally confines his writings to the fertile terri ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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    Nature Girl

    The first Carl Hiaasen I've read that is written for adults, but definitely not my last. Populated with a cast of quirky (and in some cases deranged) characters and plotted to ensure these characters get themselves into the maximum amount of trouble, this story keeps the reader entertained from beg ... (continue)

    The first Carl Hiaasen I've read that is written for adults, but definitely not my last. Populated with a cast of quirky (and in some cases deranged) characters and plotted to ensure these characters get themselves into the maximum amount of trouble, this story keeps the reader entertained from beginning to end. It won't be long before I'm digging another Carl Hiaasen out of my TBR pile.

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    Readingrat said on Feb 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Full of colorful characters and drama makes for an enjoyable read. Policts and drugs add a plot to this book. Somewhat explicit sexual scenes that are on the wierd end of the spectrum, but otherwise a fun read.

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    iamsamscrapper said on Sep 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

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