Dark Diversions

Dark Diversions
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Publisher : Penguin Canada
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780143186618
ISBN-13 : 0143186612
Rating : 4/5 (612 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dark Diversions by : John Ralston Saul

Download or read book Dark Diversions written by John Ralston Saul and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's unnamed journalist narrator moves in privileged circles on both sides of the Atlantic, insinuating himself into 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 he becomes further enmeshed in these worlds, the outsider status of the narrator grows more ambiguous: Is he a documentarian of privileged foibles and fundamental inequity, or an embodiment of the very "dark diversions" he chronicles?

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