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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Pr
Publication date
November 1, 2011
Pages
265
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780802119858
ISBN-10
0802119859
Dimensions
1 by 6.10 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$24.00
§As reported by publisher
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How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016 | On the Wealth of Nations | Thrown Under the Omnibus | Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards | The Baby Boom | Holidays in Hell
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016 | On the Wealth of Nations | Thrown Under the Omnibus | Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards | The Baby Boom | Holidays in Hell
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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-food 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.
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-food 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.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Atlantic Monthly Pr (November 1, 2011)
9780802119858 | details & prices | 265 pages | 6.10 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $24.00
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Paperback
from Grove Pr (November 13, 2012)
9780802145956 | details & prices | 265 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $15.00
CD/Spoken Word
With Dan John Miller (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Brilliance Audio (November 1, 2011)
9781455834969 | details & prices | 6.75 × 5.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.42 lbs | List price $29.99
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With Dan John Miller (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (November 1, 2011)
9781455834983 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $24.99
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