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 .-- The New York Times Book Review . 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 bad jokes and believing that the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure P. J. O Rourke traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission investigating the way of life in the most desperate places on the planet including Warsaw Managua and Belfast. The result is Holidays in Hell--a full-tilt no-holds-barred romp through politics culture and ideology. P.J. s adventures include storming student protesters barricades with riot police in South Korea interviewing Communist insurrectionists in the Philippines and going undercover dressed in Arab garb in the Gaza Strip. He also takes a look at America s homegrown horrors as he braves the media frenzy surrounding the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Washington D.C. uncovers the mortifying banality behind the white-bread kitsch of Jerry Falwell s Heritage USA and survives the stultifying boredom of Harvard s 350th anniversary celebration. Packed with P.J. s classic riffs on everything from Polish nightlife under communism to Third World driving tips Holidays in Hell is one of the best-loved books by one of today s most celebrated humorists.