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Dark diversions : a traveller's tale

Title: Dark diversions : a traveller's tale / John Ralston Saul.
Author: Saul, John Ralston, 1947-
Publication: Toronto : Viking, 2012.

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321 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In 'Dark Diversions' acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti in the 1980's and 1990's. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself in to the lives of well-to-do aristocrats. Through his exploits we experience a fascinating world of secret lovers, exiled princesses, death by veganism and religious heresies. The emotional fireworks of these inhabitants of the First World are sharply juxtaposed with the political infighting of the dictators and the corruption, double-dealing and fawning that attend them. But as the narrator becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, his outsider status grows more ambiguous: Is he a documentarian of privileged foibles and fundamental inequity, or an embodiment of the very "dark diversions" he chronicles?

Subject

Genre/Form

Black humor.
Humorous fiction.
Fiction.
Humour noir.

Note

Previously published in French under title: De si bons Américains, a translation of Some good Americans

ISBN

9780670066551
0670066559
9780143183457
0143183451
9780143187509
0143187503

OCLC

ocn804030258
804030258
SCSB-14078683

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Princeton University Library