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001 7409273
005 20091222085909.0
008 090214s2009 nyu 000 1 eng d
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050 4 $aPS3552.U8278$bH45 2009
100 1 $aButler, Robert Olen.
245 10 $aHell /$cby Robert Olen Butler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press ;$a[Berkeley] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$cc2009.
300 $a232 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 1 $a"Hatcher McCord is an evening newscaster who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's far from the only one to suffer this fate - in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including William Shakespeare, Humphrey Bogart, Richard M. Nixon, Jezebel, Judas Iscariot, Pope Boniface VIII, J. Edgar Hoover, and a panoply of present-day figures who will soon be in Hell. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't." "McCord is living in the afterlife with Anne Boleyn; but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII (and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments). Robert Olen Butler's Hell isn't as much a boiling lake of fire - although, there is that - as it is a Sisyphean trial tailored to each inhabitant, whether it's the average Joes who are struck by moving cars, die, and are reconstituted many times a day to do it all again, or the legendary newspaperman William Randolph Hearst, doomed to obscurity as a blogger mocked by his fellows because he can't figure out CAPS-LOCK." "One day, Hatcher McCord meets Dante's Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell. Soon thereafter, by a twist of diabolical fate and his interviewer's savvy, he learns a deep, dark secret of the underworld. From there Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHell$vFiction.
650 0 $aFuture punishment$vFiction.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.U8278$iH45 2009g