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To hell with it : of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno

Title
To hell with it : of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno / Dinty W. Moore.
Author
Moore, Dinty W., 1955-
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

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Description
xiv, 152 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
"In To Hell with It, Dinty W. Moore asks the question: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable?"--
Series Statement
American lives
Uniform Title
American lives.
Subject
  • Moore, Dinty W., 1955- > Anecdotes
  • Moore, Dinty W., 1955- > Religion
  • Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
  • Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 > Influence
  • Moore, Dinty W., 1955-
  • Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
  • Authors, American
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Religion
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes.
  • Biographies.
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Prologue: The Hole -- Cantos I-III: Dinty's Inferno -- Canto IV: Pudgy, Smiley, Jughead, and Fritz -- Canto V: The Burning Bush -- Canto VI: Gobbets of Chicken -- Canto VII: Some Precious Blood, a Speck of Bone -- Canto VIII: Into the Pickling Swill -- Cantos IX-XI: The Little Heretic's New Baltimore Catechism -- Cantos XII-XVII: The Hell Hole -- Cantos XVIII-XXX: Bring on the Ass Trumpets -- Cantos XXXI-XXXIV: Beyond Goode and Evil -- Epilogue: My Paradiso (with Basil and Tomato Cream).
Call Number
JFD 21-2376
ISBN
  • 9781496224606
  • 1496224604
LCCN
  • 2020031220
  • 40030495240
OCLC
1204259564
Author
Moore, Dinty W., 1955- author.
Title
To hell with it : of sin and sex, chicken wings, and Dante's entirely ridiculous, needlessly guilt-inducing Inferno / Dinty W. Moore.
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
American lives
American lives.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Standard Identifier
40030495240
Research Call Number
JFD 21-2376
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