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BOB HONEY WHO JUST DO STUFF By: Sean Penn
Washington Square Press
April 2019
On Sale: April 9, 2019
192 pages ISBN: 1501189050 EAN: 9781501189050 Kindle: B074ZLYLQB Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, βcharmingly weirdβ (Booklist, starred review) novel about Bob Honeyβa modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. Heβs tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isnβt real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovahβs Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. Heβs also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of United States intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain society of its resources. When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob canβt decide if itβs a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyoneβs lips, terrorism in everyoneβs sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides itβs time to make a changeβif he doesnβt get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first. A thunderbolt of startling images and painted βwith a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brushβ (Kirkus Reviews), Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is one of the year's most controversial and talked about literary works.
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