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A former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
November 2011
On Sale: November 1, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0802119859
EAN: 9780802119858
Kindle: B005UOPSYY
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Non-Fiction Memoir
P.J. O'Rourke is one of today's most celebrated political
humorists, and has been hailed as "the funniest writer in
America" by both Time and The Wall Street
Journal. Two decades ago he published the classic
travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed
the globe on a fun-finding mission to what were then some of
the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw,
Managua, and Belfast. In Holidays in Heck, P.J. embarks on supposedly more
comfortable and allegedly less dangerous travels--often with
family in tow--which mostly leave him wishing he were under
artillery fire again. The essays take O'Rourke on a
whirlwind of adventures, beginning at the National Mall in
Washington, which he describes as having been designed with
the same amazing "greatest generation" aesthetic sensibility
that informed his parents' living room. We follow him as he
takes his family on a ski vacation (to the Aspen of the
Midwest--Ohio--where the highest point of elevation is the
six-foot ski instructor that his wife thinks is cute). And
later he experiences a harrowing horseback ride across the
mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The result is a hilarious and often moving portrait of life
in the fast lane--only this time as a husband and father.
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