Big Trouble - Softcover

Barry, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425184129 ISBN 13: 9780425184127

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2001

Synopsis

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. Reissue. (A Touchstone Pictures film, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, releasing Spring 2002, starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Janeane Garofalo, Jason Lee, Dennis Farina, Andy Richter, Tom Sizemore, Stanley Tucci, & Patrick Warburton) (General Fiction)

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened.

Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.

Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll.

In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets.

Dave lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has a son, Rob, and a daughter, Sophie, neither of whom thinks he's funny.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0425184129
• ISBN 13: 9780425184127
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback