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Squeeze me : a novel / Carl Hiaasen.
"A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concretegrave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons..."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781524733452
- Physical Description: 335 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Murder > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Pythons > Fiction. Palm Beach (Fla.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Political fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | HIA (Text) | 35151001107259 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2020 July #1
*Starred Review* Hiassen's latest foray into South Florida offers both an absurdist view of tomorrow's headlines (it's set in postpandemic America) and a welcome reprise of the outrageously surrealistic tropes that first established the author as the Hieronymous Bosch of crime fiction. This time, though, the unhinged bad guys include the crude-spoken commander-in-chief (referred to by his Secret Service moniker, Mastodon) and a gaggle of Botox-infused, martini-swilling women who call themselves the Potussies and swear brassy loyalty to their president. Hiaasen's plot kicks into gear when one of the Potussies, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons disappears from the president's Palm Beach pleasure dome, Casa Bellicosa, on the same night that a giant python is found on the grounds. Wildlife-relocation expert Angie Armstrong is certain that Kiki is now residing in the python's midsection, but that explanation won't fly at the Casa. An alternate theory emerges, embraced by Mastodon and the Potussies: Kiki was abducted by an illegal alien. The plot gets crazier from there in a manner that we might once have seen as exaggerated for effect but that, today, sounds like a White House presser. Among the many pleasures in this rampagingly funny satire is the reappearance of one of Hiaasen's much-loved characters, the wily Skink, former Florida governor turned Everglades hermit, who joins forces with Angie and Mastodon's fed-up wife, Mockingbird, to inject a dash of hope into the Boschian landscape.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Hiaasen's satire is sure to get more off-the-book-page attention than usual. Copyright 2020 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2020 August #1
A frothy blend of murder mystery and political satire set on the wealthy island of Palm Beach, Florida, and deep inside the (unnamed) U.S. president's private estate. When Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, daughter "of the aerosol Pews" and a leading Palm Beach socialite, disappears on the manicured grounds of Lipid House in the middle of a fundraising gala, the last place anyone thinks to look is inside a giant Burmese python. Never mind that a gigantic specimen sporting an enormous bulge is discovered shortly afterward, sleeping off its meal in a banyan tree. Efficiently beheaded by professional critter wrangler Angie Armstrong, the dead snake, which is promptly stolen, soon turns up on the interstate, where it temporarily halts the motorcade of the first lady as she returns to Casa Bellicosa, her husband's Florida retreat. But who would steal a headless snake? What happened to its telltale bulge? And what about poor old Kiki, who just happened to belong to the Potussies, an influential all-female group of aging fans of the president? One mystery leads to another, and delightful subplots multiply as the sprightly narrative follows the intersecting a dventures of Angie, the novel's irresistible heroine; the first lady; bumbling villains; sardonic lawmen; loathsome politicians; and, inevitably, an Everglades-dwelling, LSDâimbibing eco-avengerâwho is incubating an iguana egg in his one empty eye socket. So, yes, the humor gets wild and the satire a little outlandish. But this airy novel, taking pratfalls in stride, never loses its buoyancy thanks to Hiaasen's deftly drawn characters and zingy dialogue. This exuberant elegy for Florida's paved-over paradise performs the near miracle of making us laugh even as we despair. Copyright Kirkus 2020 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
At the start of this heavy-handed satire from bestseller Hiaasen (
Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly Annex.Razor Girl ), wealthy 72-year-old Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a member of the POTUS Pussies, "a group of Palm Beach women who proclaimed brassy loyalty to the new, crude-spoken commander-in-chief," disappears from a charity event for the local chapter of a foundation "committed to defeating Irritable Bowel Syndrome." Kiki Pew's fate isn't a mystery for long. The event manager calls in animal capture specialist Angie Armstrong after a large python with a distended belly is found in a tree on the grounds. After beheading the snake, Angie stores the carcass without checking what's inside the reptile. Crooks soon steal the dead python, from which they remove Kiki Pew's body and bury it in cement. The Secret Service becomes involved after the thieves fail to secure the python's body in the trunk of their car, and it falls into the path of a vehicle transporting the first lady. The unnamed American president, meanwhile, is a clueless idiot, enabled in his ignorance by his staff. Hiaasen doesn't put subtlety at a premium. Those looking for light distraction from current events may be amused.Agent: Esther Newberg, ICM Partners. (Aug.)
