Overview
A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both despair and humor. In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling--out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for our entire country--would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.
Full Product Details
Author: Jerry Stahl ,
Jerry Stahl
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200917389
Publication Date: 05 July 2022
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Stahl explores the dark side of the dark side. -- Larry Charles, screenwriter of Seinfeld There's dark humor, and then there is Nein, Nein, Nein! Jerry Stahl manages a balancing act here that would put all the trapeze artists of the world to shame. -- Lucy Sante, author of Low Life A disturbing, funny, dark travelogue. -- Marc Maron, stand-up comic
Author Information
Jerry Stahl is the author of ten books, including the best sellers Permanent Midnight, a memoir, and the novel I, Fatty. His journalism has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, Vice, the Believer, and a variety of other publications. He has written extensively for film and television, including Hemingway & Gellhorn, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Jerry Stahl is the author of ten books, including the best sellers Permanent Midnight, a memoir, and the novel I, Fatty. His journalism has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, Vice, the Believer, and a variety of other publications. He has written extensively for film and television, including Hemingway & Gellhorn, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination.
