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Title details for Star Island by Carl Hiaasen - Available

Star Island

#6 in series

by Carl Hiaasen
Stephen Hoye
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A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review) and the bestselling author of Squeeze Me.

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.
Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself.
The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her….
Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does?

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  • Release date

    July 27, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307739131
      • File size: 331897 KB
      • Duration: 11:31:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Hiaasen fans will love his latest, which finds him as acerbic and hilarious as ever. Narrator Stephen Hoye throws himself into the material with zeal. Hoye is a great fit for this material. With perfect timing he delivers one comic zinger after another. Hiaasen creates wonderful over-the-top characters, and Hoye delivers them with exactly the right personalities. Cherry Pye is a 22-year-old pop star whose meteoric rise to stardom at age 14 is fast flaming out in a haze of drugs, alcohol, and bad choices in the love department. Hiaasen surrounds her with a host of parasites who will do whatever it takes to keep their meal ticket afloat and lets the mayhem ensue. D.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 5, 2010
      The career of singer Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye), who debuted with Jailbait Records at age 15, is foundering due to her lack of talent and indiscriminate appetite for drugs, booze, and sex in this outrageous, offbeat novel from Hiaasen (Nature Girl). Among those struggling to keep Cherry's career afloat are her mother, Janet Bunterman; producer Maury Lykes; and "undercover stunt double" Ann DeLusia, who will, say, mislead the press into thinking Cherry is out and about when she's really in rehab. Hiaasen has easy targets in misbehaving celebrity sightings, tabloid stalkings, and spin control experts, and he makes the most of them. Crooked real estate developer Jackie Sebago and paparazzo Bang Abbott, who plans to hitch his wagon to Cherry's star, add to the madcap fun. Mayhem follows after Bang kidnaps Ann instead of Cherry by mistake, and ex-Florida governor and eco-vigilante Clinton "Skink" Tyree, who was smitten with Ann after a chance encounter, rushes to her rescue. The torrent of pop culture barbs are bound to please Hiaasen's ardent fans. 500,000 first printing; 12-city author tour.

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