Star Island (novel)
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| Author | Carl Hiaasen |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
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2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 352 |
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| Preceded by | Nature Girl |
| Followed by | Bad Monkey |
Star Island is a 2010 novel by Carl Hiaasen, released on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
The novel takes its name from Star Island in Miami Beach, Florida, where part of the story takes place.
Ann DeLusia, the "stunt double" for habitually intoxicated and drug-addicted pop star "Cherry Pye", is mistakenly kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo. Now, the star's entourage must find a way to rescue Ann, and do it without revealing her identity to the star herself, or the world at large.
The novel also features the re-appearance of Hiaasen's recurring character, ex-Florida governor Clinton "Skink" Tyree.
Paparazzo "Bang" Abbott is lying in wait outside a posh South Beach hotel, on a tip that pop star "Cherry Pye" has overdosed again. However, when the paramedics bring a woman down to the ambulance, he sees that she is a body double. Meanwhile, the real Cherry is being driven to the nearest hospital in a private limousine by her . The body double is Ann DeLusia, an actress hired by Cherry's family to make brief public appearances when Cherry is too inebriated to do so. Cherry's mother/manager, Janet Bunterman, tells Ann to take a few days off, while Cherry is packed off, yet again, to "dietary camp" (i.e., drug rehab). Infuriated at having been fooled by a body double, Abbott becomes even more obsessed with getting photos of Cherry under sordid circumstances.
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