Guided tours of hell

novellas

1st ed.

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Author

Francine Prose

Contributions

Prose, Francine, 1947- - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

60,250 words, Guess

Page Count

241 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL983999M
ISBN-100805048618
OCLC Control Number34710877
OCLC Control Numberguidedtoursofhel00pros
Library of Congress Control Number96021732

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LibraryThing306529
Goodreads1531049

Classifications

DDC813/.54
LCCPS3566.R68 G85 1997

Description

The less-than-innocents abroad in these daring short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex - their entire lives. In the title novella, Landau, a third-rate American playwright, attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.