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Guillaume
Staelens
The Trail of an
Apache Poet
First novel, 388 pages - September 2013
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The 90s, Seattle in the USA. Nicholas Stanley, born of a Native American Indian
mother and an American father, the heir of an aeronautics company, embodies
the American dream of ethnic intermixing.
But Nick feels out of place. He leaves the family nest and meets Pearl Van Leu
– a lesbian artist of Vietnamese origin who is 10 years his senior – and follows
her from San Francisco to New York. The young woman introduces him to
the world of experimental art and sexual pleasure, and leads him into the
underworld of drugs and alcohol. When he wakes up to the destructive side of
their relationship, he flees for the northern lights of Canada.
His quest does not end there. His father passes away, leaving him his share of
the family estate, but instead Nicholas leaves everything once again, this time
for Latin America. From there, his dream of setting foot in Patagonia is within
his reach. How far will he go to fill his hunger for discovery, knowledge and
revolt?
GOOD TO KNOW
Guillaume Staelens was born in 1973 in Seine-Saint-Denis. As a teenager he studied law at the
Sorbonne. But his discovery of Rimbaud led him to abandon any career plans. A lover of literature
and traveling, he set out for North and South America. He is a nomad in body and above all in
mind, and has worked in many different areas. The Trail of an Apache Poet is his first novel.
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