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Dark diversions : a traveller's tale / John Ralston Saul.

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ISBN 9780143183457 (pbk.)
0143183451 (pbk.)
Name Saul, John Ralston, 1947-
Title Dark diversions : a traveller's tale / John Ralston Saul.
Published Toronto, Ont. : Viking, 2012.
Description 321 p. ; 23 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?
Subjects Dictators -- Juvenile fiction
Developing countries -- Fiction
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
Black humor (Literature)
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