Lion Country is a novel by Frederick Buechner , and the first in the Book of Bebb series. Lion Country was written in 1971, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1972.
1-609: Lion Country is written in the first person . The narrator, Antonio Parr, is a writer who attempts a piece of investigative journalism . Parr tries to expose Leo Bebb , a clergyman who runs a diploma mill , as a con-man . Parr becomes friends with Bebb, however, and marries Bebb's daughter. The title of the novel comes from the Lion Country Safari , which is featured in the book. Cynthia Ozick calls Lion Country and its sequel, Open Heart , "God-hungry comic novels speckled with dying and laughter." This article about
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