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MuzeFormatDesc: Compact Disc
ISBN-10: 1590865839
ISBN-13: 9781590865835
Nov 2002
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
Abridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Baby boomer humorist Dave Barry, famous for his droll observations about aging and the human condition in general, makes his fiction debut with this hilarious novel.
| Size | | Height: | 5.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 2.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"None of it makes a bit of sense. All of it is absolutely wild, smart and--yes--endearing. Who in heaven's name needs 'serious American novelists' when Dave Barry is on the job?"
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (09/05/1999)
"The big surprise is how readily adaptable Barry's jokey rhythms are to the demands of creating characters and spinning them in a farcical plot."
Perutz
"Dave Barry's likable first novel has all the earmarks of one of his syndicated columns. There are crazy schemes, thoughtless bureaucrats standing in the way of ordinary, right-thinking people, and a collection of oversized animals (a big dog, a giant toad and a hungry boa constrictor). Mr. Barry seems to think that all he needs to do is add Tarantino-esque hitmen and he has a perfect comedy thriller on his hands. He's right--up to a point."
Hughes
"Let's face it, Florida is almost as funny as New Jersey, and any novel in which the wife-beating mean guy goes insane from the toxins of a giant toad fills a gentle reader with the warmth of smugness."
Reynolds
"Here's what readers need to know about BIG TROUBLE, Dave Barry's first novel: Even the acknowledgements page is funny....It's perfectly possible for someone to write a brilliant and insightful newspaper column for decades without ever producing a single readable work longer than 1,000 words. So, in this regard, it's amazing to discover that Barry is indeed a novelist. A talented novelist....[BIG TROUBLE is] so enjoyable that you have to put it down on the floor to keep from finishing it too fast and being reduced to staring mournfully at its cover, wishing you could read it again for the first time."
McGarrahan
"In the great visceral Florida-focused tradition of Hemingway and John D. MacDonald, Dave Barry succeeds wildly with BIG TROUBLE. He is a welcome leavening agent in the artery-clogged, overly intellectualized and spiritually constipated genre that we now refer to as mystery fiction."
Friedman
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