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The humorist offers a fiction debut that describes the lives of the troubled denizens of Coconut Grove, including a career-threatened adman, an alcoholic embezzler dodging a couple of hit men, and their dysfunctional families.

Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida. In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt,... Read Full Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist presents his first novel, an off-the-wall detective caper that's been compared to the work of Elmore Leonard. I laughed so hard I fell out of a chair. This is the funniest book I've read in almost 40 years. Stephen King. Optioned by Disney... Read Full Overview

Barry's irreverently funny fiction debut about love and mayhem in south Florida, a New York Times bestseller, is the basis for the new Touchstone motion picture, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family, Men in Black) and starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Jeaneane Garofalo,... Read Full Overview

In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything -- written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has made the transition to novelist . . . and done it with a style and an inventiveness that establish... Read Full Overview

In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition... Read Full Overview