Showing posts with label native tongue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label native tongue. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Carl Hiaasen: Native Tongue

snow white at disney world Set in Florida around a poor man's version of Disney World, you know this could get nasty, given Carl Hiaasen's views on Walt and "Team Rodent". You also know, when a policeman shoots dead a vole in chapter one, when a grandmother shoots the foot (twice) of a baddie she hired to kidnap the vole, that Hiaasen's eye for the absurd is functioning as well as ever.