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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. 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…
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Editions
4 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 2009Grove Press · 232 pages · 9780802119018
- Other · English · 2010Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 240 pages · 9780802145093
- Other · English · 2010Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802198938
- Paperback · Turkish · 2011CehennemIthaki Yayinlari · 280 pages · 9786053751298
HellFuture punishmentFictionFiction, generalNew York Times reviewed
