Guided Tours Of Hell: Novellas (2002)

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A really smart, satisfying read. Both of the stories deal with Americans abroad in Europe for reasons of cultural tourism. Both protagonists grapple with darkness and severity, they see whorehouses, catacombs, animal slaughter, the gas chamber of a concentration camp...I'm not sure if there's a clear mode to these pieces- that America lacks the tormented past of the dark ages and of the holocaust is likely something to bear in mind. Is there greater freedom to experience the visceral poles abroad?The fainting and subterranean travels of Dante are also a fun theme Prose scores big points with. Read it.

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