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Fever beach [large print] : a novel / Carl Hiaasen.

Hiaasen, Carl, (Author).

Summary:

"The afternoon of September 20th, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Falls, Florida. The hitchhiker, who reminded Figgo of Danny DeVito, asked for a lift to the interstate. Figgo said he'd take him there after finishing an errand. Figgo, it turns out, is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. On January 6, 2021 he thought he was defacing a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, but he wound up spreading feces all over a statue of James Zacharia George, a Civil War Confederate war leader. Figgo's already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the Mink Foundation, a supposedly philanthropical organization, and renting a room in Figgo's apartment because there's no place else she can afford. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars. He's living alone a year after his dog died, two years after he sank a city councilman's party barge, and three years after his divorce. Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery--involving dark money and darker motives--they are determined to solve, and become entangled in a world populated by some of Hiaasen's most outrageous characters: Claude and Eletra Mink--billionaire philanthropists with way too much plastic surgery and a secret right-wing agenda--and Congressman Clure Boyette--who dreams of being Florida's (and maybe America's) most important politician. The only things standing in his way: his love for hookers and young girls, and his total lack of intelligence. We meet Noel Kristianson--a Scandinavian agnostic injured when Figgo thinks he's a Jewish threat to humanity and runs him over with his car; Jonus Onus--Figgo's partner in white power idiocy; and many, many more. Hiaasen ties them all together and delivers them to their appropriate fates, in his wildest and most entertaining novel to date."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798217070183
  • Physical Description: 545 pages (large print) 24 cm.
  • Edition: First large print edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Random House Large Print, [2025]
Subject:
White supremacy movements > United States > Fiction
Right-wing extremists > United States > Fiction
Politicians > Fiction > Corrupt practices
Charities > Corrupt practices > Fiction
Satire > Fiction
Large type books.
Florida > Fiction
Genre:
Social problem fiction

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  • 37 of 42 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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Marion Library LP HIA (Text) 37810435833750 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
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Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library LP HIAASEN (Text) 39493110147420 Adult Large Print Fiction Checked out 08/19/2026
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Beaufort Main LP F HIAAS (Text) 34208400057120 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Bordeaux Library LP HIAASEN (Text) 31781069541959 Adult Large Print Fiction Checked out 07/28/2026
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