An edition of Basket case (1993)

Basket case

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An edition of Basket case (1993)

Basket case

1st ed.
  • 3.50 ·
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  • 4 Have read

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident," might be the stiff of Jack's dreams--if only he can figure out what happened.Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn't yet fired anyone but plans to "break her cherry" on Jack; the rock star's pop-singer widow, who's using the occasion of her husband's death to re-launch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders' meeting.With clues from the dead rock singer's music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma's strange fate--in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself."Always be halfway prepared" is Jack Tagger's motto--and it's more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen.

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
317

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Basket Case
February 1, 2005, Mysterious Press
in English
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Basket case.
2003, Warner Books
in English
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Fatal Song
April 17, 2003, Denoël
Paperback in French
Cover of: Basket case
Basket case
2002, A.A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Basket case
Basket case
2002, Chivers Press
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: Basket case
Basket case
2002, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Basket case
Basket case
2002, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Basket case
Basket case
2002, Thorndike Press
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.I217 B37 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
317 p.
Number of pages
317

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23246257M
Internet Archive
basketcase000hiaa
ISBN 10
044661193, 0375411070
LCCN
2001038317
Library Thing
1975
Goodreads
528504

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