{"product_id":"to-hell-with-it-9781496224606","title":"To Hell with It","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante published his ambitious and unusual poem, \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante’s fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: 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? In \u003ci\u003eTo Hell with It\u003c\/i\u003e, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unstrap your backpack of guilt and sit down for a laugh.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you've even wondered why the hell we came up with hell, this is the book for you. Dinty W. Moore knows of hell well, and in all sorts of ways.\"—George Yatchisin, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's probably safe to say \u003ci\u003edon't\u003c\/i\u003e read this book if you're heavy into orthodoxy and prefer to understand with certainty how the world works. But if like most of the contemporary world you're struggling to understand our collective Christian history and indoctrination more broadly, or even just how some things are more grey than black and white, you'll enjoy the descent into Dinty's mind. To hell with anyone else that tells you differently.\"—Emily Dillon, \u003ci\u003eHippocampus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTo Hell With It: On Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing \u003c\/i\u003eInferno, Moore sketches, howls, gorges, and guffaws his way through internal and external landscapes of guilt and excess to present an everyman’s critique of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e. He both laments and lampoons the \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003eand its death grip on our collective and individual consciences. The result is part memoir, part travelogue, part journal left under the bed of a vacated freshman dorm at a Catholic university.\"—David Gottlieb, \u003ci\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moore's humor, combining intellect with pop culture knowledge, shines throughout the book.\"—Rev. Elizabeth Felicetti, \u003ci\u003eGood River Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Italy they're celebrating seven centuries of Dante . . . but I doubt anyone there has whipped up a carnival so wild as Dinty Moore's.\"—John Domini, \u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dinty W Moore might say, ‘to hell with it!’ But he doesn’t mean it. He’s too good for that, and too funny—Kurt Vonnegut funny—and even with his head in a bucket of county fair chicken, too wise to tempt the fates. \u003ci\u003eTo Hell with It\u003c\/i\u003e is a madcap, deep, hopeful, absurd, learned, solemn, silly, and somehow redeeming look at the hell we make for ourselves, the hell the world offers, and the heaven to be found if only we look in the heart of each of our hearts, plus cartoons!”—Bill Roorbach, author of \u003ci\u003eLife among Giants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t dare say that Dinty’s Inferno is better than Dante’s. But it is a hell of a lot funnier. It’s so funny that you don’t realize how smart it is until it’s too late: you’ve suffered Deep Thoughts. You realize you’ve been not only entertained but enlightened. Okay, okay, to hell with it: Dinty’s is better.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of \u003ci\u003eHeating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Moore’s mashup of classic texts and pop culture, the personal and the spiritual, is creative nonfiction as its quintessential best. \u003ci\u003eTo Hell with It\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating, humorous, and compelling cosmology to revel to. This is stand-up theology at its finest.”—Sue William Silverman, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Note    \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: The Hole    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Cantos I–III: Dinty’s Inferno    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Canto IV: Pudgy, Smiley, Jughead, and Fritz    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Canto V: The Burning Bush    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Canto VI: Gobbets of Chicken    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Canto VII: Some Precious Blood, a Speck of Bone    \u003cbr\u003e 6. Canto VIII: Into the Pickling Swill    \u003cbr\u003e 7. Cantos IX–XI: The Little Heretic’s New Baltimore Catechism    \u003cbr\u003e 8. Cantos XII–XVII: The Hell Hole    \u003cbr\u003e 9. Cantos XVIII–XXX: Bring on the Ass Trumpets    \u003cbr\u003e 10. Cantos XXXI–XXXIV: Beyond Goode and Evil    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: My Paradiso (With Basil and Tomato Cream)    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234305367,"sku":"9781496224606","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496224606.jpg?v=1730506073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-hell-with-it-9781496224606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}