The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure Tours of Hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entire lives.
Nina, the heroine of the second novella, Three Pigs in Five Days, is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover\'s travel journal -- a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world..
In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation.
The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure Tours of Hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history, reality, politics, sex -- their entire lives
