The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue
by Arthur Koestler
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In this novel the call-girls are the men and women of the international jet-set who, at the lift of a telephone, will fly from conference to congress to symposium to discuss subjects of world importance. This time the place is Switzerland and the subject Survival...Tags
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A slim book building up to a great punch line: It's the end of the world, but have no fear: professional international junketeers are holding a conference to discuss it, inconclusively. A good read.
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Arthur Koestler was born on September 5, 1905 in Budapest, Hungary and studied at the University of Vienna. Koestler was a Middle East correspondent for several German newspapers, wrote for the Manchester Guardian, the London Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, which centers on the destructiveness of politics, show more The Act of Creation, a book about creativity, and The Ghost in the Machine, which bravely attacks behaviorism. Arthur Koestler died in London on March 3, 1983. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue
- Original title
- The Call-Girls
- Original publication date
- 1972; 1973 (Germany) (Germany)
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