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 Author Name: Robert Sedlack
Title: THE AFRICAN SAFARI PAPERS: A NOVEL
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: PENGUIN/PUTNAM (PENGUIN ACCT)
ISBN Number: 1585673005 / 9781585673001
Seller ID: 1031155
Darkly comic novel that cuts to the heart of a dysfunctional family. Richard Clark, 19 yrs old, is a drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, sex-crazed young man who is off to Africa on a safari with his parents. All the makings of a cult classic. 5x8 inches, 309 pgs.
'The African Safari Papers is an intense and outrageous portrait of a family so troubled that their family trip is, in a word, torture. Richard Clark, the narrator of this sharp and madcap novel, is nineteen years old, a drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, sex-crazed young man who is off to Africa on a safari with his parents. Obviously, this is a mistake of magnitude. As Richard smolders with resentment, his voice by turns self-loathing and self-righteous, he documents his trip in a series of journal entries that are funny, sad, and piercingly insightful. Juxtaposed with the hostile environment, the already tense situation becomes explosive: Mom is going insane, Dad drinks compulsively as he ticks off wildlife sightings on his checklist, and Richard is busy getting high on the drugs he has smuggled in his mother's suitcase. Anything can happen, and it does, in this Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century.
Shortlisted for the 2002 Commonwealth Prize.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Robert Sedlack is a writer and documentary filmmaker involved in a number of ongoing projects. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he attended New York University and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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