{"id":130977,"date":"2017-11-14T02:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=130977"},"modified":"2017-11-14T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:30:57","slug":"remember-pappy-pariah-sean-penn-has-written-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/14\/remember-pappy-pariah-sean-penn-has-written-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Pappy Pariah? Sean Penn has written a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK \u2014 Sean Penn is writing a novel about a \u201cdivorced, disillusioned man.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, yes, he did once release an audiobook under the pseudonym \u201cPappy Pariah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atria Books told The Associated Press on Monday that Penn’s \u201cBob Honey Who Just Do Stuff\u201d will come out March 27. The novel builds upon an audiobook from 2016, narrated by one Pappy Pariah and promoted by the usually press-shy actor. During an appearance last fall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Penn acknowledged a close bond with Pariah, while also referring to him as a sociopath.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was soon after I finished narrating the short audio of ‘Bob Honey’ that I began to feel I had only scratched the surface of this story I wanted to tell,\u201d Penn said in a statement issued Monday by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. \u201cExpanding that original idea into a fully realized novel has been an exciting challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Atria, Penn’s \u201cdarkly humorous novel tells the picaresque story of Bob Honey, a middle-aged, divorced, disillusioned man living in a nondescript house on a nondescript street in Woodview, California. Bob Honey is a man of many trades \u2014 sewage specialist, purveyor of pyrotechnics, contract killer for a mysterious government agency that pays in small bills.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actor had told the audience gathered at the Los Angeles museum that he met Pariah at a Key West, Florida, bar in 1979. He said that his old acquaintance had gotten back in touch with him and sent a manuscript.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it was a connection to being 19 years old and wishing that I had stayed in touch with this guy,\u201d Penn said on his interest in the book, which he praised for its politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yet, how concerning you should be that you agree with a sociopath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penn, whose off-screen adventures include interviews with Cuban President Raul Castro and an encounter with Mexican drug lord Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman, is not the first movie star to become a fiction writer. Others include Kirk Douglas, Gene Hackman and Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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