false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172545547m/188422.jpg 188422 3 These two novellas about Americans abroad combine to create one wallop of a book. As they confront the legacy of history and their own shortcomings, Prose's characters are obsessively self-aware, even narcissistically petty--just like we are. In the title story, Landau, a struggling playwright, engages in a vanity-laden struggle of wills with a charismatic Holocaust-survivor in the cafeteria of a death camp-turned-tourist-attraction during a Kafka symposium. In the second novella "Three Pigs in Five Days," Nina is sent to Paris by her boss and ex-lover to write an article about a whorehouse-turned-hotel. While there, she is plagued by the demons of her erotic past as well as the romantic ghosts of the dysfunctional relationships of dead Parisian artists and their mistresses. Always harrowing, occasionally baroque, and tinged with hilarity, <B>Guided Tours of Hell</B> is an early candidate for the best fiction of the year. 182136 1997 Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas total:114|5:1|4:0|3:2|2:0|1:0| 114 394 152 5 188422 006008085X 9780060080853 111 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172545547m/188422.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188422.Guided_Tours_of_Hell_Novellas 3 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Oct 07 11:35:36 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 11:39:04 -0700 2007
The first novella is shorter and better: a group of Kafka scholars is visiting a concentration camp. Jiri is the star, this jerk who survived a concentration camp, and w...more...]]> 1531049 0805048618 9780805048612 3 1 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223625753m/1531049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1531049.Guided_Tours_of_Hell_Novellas 4 0 false Sat Jul 28 17:23:26 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 17:31:12 -0700 2007 bad – which means she's very good. These two novellas about Not-Quite-Innocents Abroad (the other one is called, deliciously, "Three Pigs in Five Days") are as sly and anti-sentimental as only a writer's writer can be. In these two tales, she reminds me of Rachel Ingal...more...]]> 188422 006008085X 9780060080853 111 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172545547m/188422.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188422.Guided_Tours_of_Hell_Novellas 3 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 13:31:58 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 14:32:12 -0700 2007
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