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Synopsis
At the age of 23 RICHARD SCOTT SACKS, author of WORLD OF WORLDS: Stories From Four Continents, bought a leaky dugout canoe and with a friend paddled 300 kilometers down the Congo River to the rapids above Kisangani.
WORLD OF WORLDS is political and historical fiction from the front lines: Vietnam-era historical fiction, post-colonial Africa travel stories, character-driven political thrillers, and coming-of-age adventure tales.
It’s an unusually evocative and immersive work based on lived experience.
Anyone who has traveled the world's back roads — foreigners abroad, children of expats, tourists, students of post-independence Africa, Africans, Europeans, Americans, Australians — will recognize the authenticity immediately.
These 15 short stories show Americans overseas and at home wrestling with the tumultuous years 1968-1981, but they are painfully, ironically current and up to date.
Moral seriousness is part of the action. The characters — Americans mostly — tough, rebellious youth, far from home, on bad roads and usually broke, test cultural and racial limits in strange, alluring, but pitiless surroundings. They are exposed to relentless existential and physical upheaval that threatens their moral underpinnings and their very survival.
The author is an accomplished novelist, journalist, and diplomat. But above all, he was there.
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About the Author
Richard Scott Sacks is an award-winning novelist, writer, and US diplomat, and world traveler, whose career placed him in the crosshairs of diplomacy, conflict, and political consequence-crisscrossing conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and the United States in his youth, then in Foreign Service postings in Pakistan, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Morocco, Mexico, Congo-Zaïre, and Washington, DC.Mr. Sacks's debut novel, the critically acclaimed Drinking from the Stream, swept political thriller and action/adventure award categories, winning accolades by the dozen. His academic study with SAIS professor Riordan Roett, Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy, was named Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine.A former newspaper and wire service reporter, Mr. Sacks wrote for The Miami Herald from Asunción, Paraguay, the Associated Press (Detroit, Michigan), and The Middlesex News (Framingham, Massachusetts).Mr. Sacks holds master's degrees from National War College and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He, his wife, Aida, and their children live near Washington, DC.
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