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Robert Olen Butler - Hell

Start: 10/08/2009 7:00 pm

The new novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is set in the underworld. Its main character, Hatcher McCord, is an evening-news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He is not the only one to suffer this fate--in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. Each inhabitant's fate and afterlife in Hell is appropriately and ironically dealt. Robert Olen Butler's description of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have celebrated.