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Robert Sedlack, the author of the new book The Horn of a Lamb, traveled from Los Angeles by car early in February to launch his book in Canada. He started in Alberta in Jasper, then Edmonton, Calgary and Canmore. He then headed into Saskatchewan, first in Saskatoon and then Regina, before coming to Manitoba, where he first visited Brandon and then came up to Flin Flon. Sedlack arrived in Flin Flon last Wednesday and stayed in a hotel the first night, only to move out to a cabin at a tourist lodge for the next night. This was his first trip to Flin Flon and he couldn't believe the beauty of our community. There were about a dozen people who attended the reading of part of his book at the Flin Flon-Creighton Public Library the following evening, Thursday. Sedlack appeared to be pleased with the turnout. He was very easy to talk to and quite a personable young man. In Sedlack's book he mentions Flin Flon many, many times. Any mention of Flin Flon and its relation to the hockey story in his book is strictly fictitious! He told me that he had a fascination with Bobby Clarke when he was playing in Philadelphia and ever since, Sedlack tried to find out as much as he could about Clarke's roots and the City of Flin Flon, including how Flin Flon got its name. The Horn of a Lamb is a hockey story based in Manitoba. It is a story about a young hockey player who played for the Brandon Wheat Kings and had the potential of being drafted into the NHL. However, he becomes injured with a severe head injury that results in the end of his hockey career but not in his fascination of the game. I am only half way through reading the book and find it to be quite entertaining, and at times sexually explicit, so perhaps not a book for everyone. Seldack was heading to Winnipeg from Flin Flon and then on to Ontario where he will begin in Sault Ste Marie, then head to Sudbury, Stratford and finally Toronto on March 13. In Toronto, Rick Mercer is going to highlight the author and his book on CBC. From there, Sedlack is going back to sunny L.A.
