Over twenty years ago, P.J. O’Rourke published Holidays in Hell, the classic travelogue that found him searching for excitement in places like Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. In Holidays in Heck, the man dubbed “the funniest writer in America” by Time and The Wall Street Journal steps into the new and slightly less dangerous territory of the family vacation/5(66). O'Rourke, self-styled ""Republican Party Reptile"" (as he titled his last collection of humorous pieces), now takes us on a well-lubricated tour of hell#;all those hot-spots around the world that saner sorts avoid like plague. In true gonzo fashion, as Rolling Stone's ""International Affairs Desk Chief,"" O'Rourke staggers around the fringe of the story, whether he's in war-tom Lebanon or. No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border Cited by:
Holidays in Hell is a non-fiction book by P.J. O'Rourke about his visits to areas of conflict during the s as a foreign correspondent, as well as to some less high-profile locations.. References. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for HOLIDAYS IN HELL: IN WHICH OUR INTREPID REPORTER TRAVELS By P. J. O'rourke at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Buy a cheap copy of Holidays in Hell book by P.J. O'Rourke. Now available from Grove Press, P. J. O'Rourke's classic, best-selling guided tour of the world's most desolate, dangerous, and desperate places. Tired of making Free Shipping on all orders over $
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. O'Rourke, self-styled ""Republican Party Reptile"" (as he titled his last collection of humorous pieces), now takes us on a well-lubricated tour of hell#;all those hot-spots around the world that saner sorts avoid like plague. In true gonzo fashion, as Rolling Stone's ""International Affairs Desk Chief,"" O'Rourke staggers around the fringe of the story, whether he's in war-tom Lebanon or. Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence alright, so things haven't changed all that much.
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