Publication

2009 - Grove Press, New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010279566
  • GoogleyscEw6qeOE8C
  • Goodreads6354310

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3552.U8278 H45 2009
  • LCCPS3552.U8278

Description

Hatcher McCord is an evening newscaster who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's far from the only one to suffer this fate--in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including William Shakespeare, Humphrey Bogart, Richard M. Nixon, Jezebel, Judas Iscariot, Pope Boniface VIII, J. Edgar Hoover, and a panoply of present-day figures who will soon be in Hell. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't. Butler's Hell isn't as much a boiling lake of fire--although there is that--as it is a Sisyphean trial tailored to each inhabitant. One day, Hatcher McCord meets Dante's Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell. Soon thereafter, by a twist of diabolical fate and an interviewer's savvy, he learns a deep, dark secret of the underworld. From there Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape.--From publisher's description.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • HellHardcoverGrove Press2009-01-01

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