Holidays in Hell

P. J. O'Rourke

Vintage Books, 1989 - Travel - 257 pages

O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe--from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador--looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. "A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views--but not without a few bruises".--New York Times Book Review.

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User Review  - MiaCulpa - LibraryThing

P.J. O'Rourke can be a very funny writer and this is on show in "Holidays in hell", a collection of his writing as a foreign affairs journalist. The most memorable entry is his trip to the Philippines ...

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User Review  - keylawk - LibraryThing

The author wrote about his travels, and published as the "International Affairs Desk Chief" at Rolling Stone. This is a travel book. The author chose to visit and write about trouble-spots around the ...

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• A Ramble Through Lebanon: 12
• Seoul Brothers: 44

About the author

P. J. O'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio on November 14, 1947. He received a B. A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a M.A. in English from Johns Hopkins University. He worked for the magazine National Lampoon, eventually becoming editor-in-chief. He received a writing credit for National Lampoon's Lemmings which helped launch the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase. In 1981, he left the magazine to write screenplays including Rodney Dangerfield's Easy Money. He contributes regularly to several magazines including Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The American Spectator, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, The Weekly Standard, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of 20 books including Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, All the Troubles in the World, Don't Vote! - It Just Encourages the Bastards, and How It Got That Way (And It Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do It Again).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Holidays in Hell; Vintage departures
• Author: P. J. O'Rourke
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage Books, 1989
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jul 31, 2008
• ISBN: 0679724222, 9780679724223
• Length: 257 pages