Kick Ass (Hiaasen book)

{{Short description|Book by Carl Hiaasen}}

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| name = Kick Ass

| image = File:Kick Ass Hiaasen book cover.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Carl Hiaasen, Diane Stevenson (ed.)

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| publisher = University Press of Florida

| pub_date = October 1999

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| media_type = Print (Hardcover, Softcover)

| pages = 471 pages

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| isbn = 0813017173

| oclc = 41712895

| dewey = 975.9'063

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| followed_by = Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns

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Kick Ass is the first of three books which highlight some of Carl Hiaasen's best columns in the newspaper Miami Herald. It was published in 1999, and followed by Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001) and Dance of the Reptiles (2014).

The editor, Diane Stevenson, selected columns that focused on Hiaasen's views on growth and government in Florida. Kirkus described Hiaasen as "a crystalline, pitiless seer of human weakness" and stated the book is "deeply satisfying, both for what it reveals of the serious priorities of a supposedly light novelist and for the outrageous epic of Florida profiteering and entropy within."{{cite web |title=KICK ASS: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carl-hiaasen/kick-ass/ |website=Kirkus |accessdate=22 March 2019}}