Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn, Sean Penn
Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn, Sean Penn
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Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn

Author: Sean Penn

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/01/2019


Synopsis

Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn?the madcap follow-up to his debut novel, which was hailed by authors as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Jane Smiley, and Paul Theroux ?explores the deepest recesses of American politics and culture. Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcee with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington DC for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious "landlord," but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him. Part comedy and part thriller, Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn establishes Sean Penn as a fixture of the literary landscape for years to come.

About Sean Penn

Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Mystic River and Milk, and received Academy Award nominations as Best Actor for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, and I Am Sam. He has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director on over one hundred theater and film productions. His journalism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and HuffPo. This is his first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean on July 29, 2024

The alliteration is indefensible but I admired him doing the equivalent of what Dylan did with TARANTULA- something experimental and a grab bag of the hit and miss. As an audiobook it is not so bad and feels like an actor's improvisation, actually.......more

Goodreads review by David on January 23, 2020

When I saw that this novel had been penned by well-known actor, Sean Penn, I was curious enough to snatch it off the shelf at the library and check it out. Can he really write, I wondered, or does his notoriety as an actor simply give him the privilege of getting a book published whether it's really......more