Strip Tease (novel)
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Strip Tease is a 1993 novel by Carl Hiaasen. Like most of his other novels, it is a crime novel set in Florida and features Hiaasen's characteristic black humor. The novel focuses on a single mother who has turned to exotic dancing to earn enough money to gain legal custody of her young daughter, and ends up matching wits with a lecherous United States Congressman and his powerful corporate backers.
Author | Carl Hiaasen |
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Country | United States |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | Sep 1993 |
Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 353 |
ISBN | 0-679-41981-0 |
Preceded by | Native Tongue |
Followed by | Stormy Weather |
Like many Hiaasen novels, the book's plot is set against a backdrop of a particular environmental crime or corruption issue that angers the author. In this case, it is the plutocracy of sugar growers in Florida, and the exorbitant subsidies regularly granted to them by the U.S. Congress.
Strip Tease was a New York Times bestseller in 1993.