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Sean Penn now a novelist

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Source : Times of India Academy-award winning actor Sean Penn is best known for acting roles in “Mystic River” and the biopic “Milk”. He has also directed several music videos and movies and is an activist, being very outspoken about his causes, such as how the Bush Administration handled Iraq. Sean Penn has now written a novel which will be published next year. The book is called “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff” and has been described as being “darkly humourous”. Penn released the novel in an audiobook version in 2016. However, he had denied the fact that he was the author. He claimed it was written by Pappy Pariah, a man he had met at a bar in Key West, Fla., in 1979. “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff” will be published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in March 2018. According to a news release from Atria, the 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.”
 Penn performed a live reading from the book at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last year. Entertainment Weekly described the event as “surreal,” writing: “Any audience member who believed Penn when he said he wasn’t Pariah was likely second-guessing that notion when, late in the reading, the fictional story shifted to a political landscape — the mentions all part of the zeitgeist.”
It was at this news release that Penn admitted to being the author of the audiobook, saying, “It 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. Expanding that original idea into a fully-realized novel has been an exciting challenge.”
   
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