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Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas

Francine Prose

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In these two audacious novellas, Americans abroad find that losing themselves in another culture can be dangerous
Invited to Prague's first annual Kafka conference to read from his play about the great Czech writer, a playwright named Landau finds himself upstaged by Jiri Krakauer, the dashing Holocaust survivor whose claim to fame is a long-ago death-camp love affair with Kafka's sister. On a visit to the camp, Landau attempts to prove that Krakauer is lying--risking his career to destroy that of another.
On the other side of Europe, Nina and Leo go on a macabre tour of their own. A guidebook editor and his besotted assistant, they are enduring a miserable French vacation when Leo suggests a "Paris Death Trip," taking in catacombs, prisons, and all the darkest corners of the City of Light.
In these two novellas, Francine Prose skewers Americans abroad.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
  • Publish Date: Nov 26th, 2013
  • Pages: 220
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781480445482
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Literary

About the Author

Prose, Francine: - Francine Prose is the author of sixteen novels, including A Changed Man, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. A former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prose is a highly regarded critic and essayist, and has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. She is a distinguished writer in residence at Bard College, and she lives in New York City.

Praise for this book

"Irresistibly readable." --The New York Times Book Review
"Brisk, witty, richly detailed, and suffused with a wry subtlety." --Elle
"Exact, unsparing--a superb, powerful work." --Kirkus Reviews