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Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with
this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute
girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a high school game called Killer. Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive stepdad, Arthur.
Arthur cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with automatic garage-opener gates that accidentally
freed prisoners in a lightning storm.
Farcical confusion ensues, witness...
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Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped
formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time
was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had
a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering
pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the
funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930.
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"One of the funniest peole ever to tap tap on a PC."
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Not since George Bush's memorable dinner with the Japanese prime minister has the Land of the Rising Sun seen the likes of a goodwill
ambassador like Dave Barry. Join him as he belts out oldies in a karaoke bar, marries a geriatric geisha girl, takes his first bath in public, bows
to just about everyone, and explores culture shock in all its numerous humorous forms, including: Failing to Learn Japanese in Only Five
Minutes (Or: "Very Much Good Morning, Sir!") ; Humor in Japan (Take My Tofu, Please!); Sports in Japan ("Yo, Batter! Loudly Make it Fly!"),
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