![]() ![]() I read it in one setting, desperate to find out if hell has an End. ![]() The central conceit is brilliant and there’s a real sense of pathos for our author’s desperate attempts to find and maintain human connections in an ageless place. Even hell is strangely (Utah Valley) Mormon - a place for beautiful white people with perfect teeth. Peck’s Mormon biography is evident here, from the relief that he is not in Baptist hell, to the guilt he feels after drinking coffee from hell’s Star Trekkian vending machines. ![]() Hell could last three days or three trillion years. It’s not an infinite number of books, but the size boggles his (and your) mind. Trouble is, hell contains every book that could ever be written. Our author finds himself in a deliciously cruel/comfortable Zoroastrian hell in which he must find the book of his life in order to escape. A Short Stay in Hell is, alas, mis-titled. ![]()
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