Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Book Overview

One Sunday afternoon, an ordinary couple named Edmund and Rosemary decide to go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Within moments, they are plunged into a wonderful, nerve-racking, hilarious,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416545492
• ISBN13: 9781416545491
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Packs a big punch for a small book!

How can this book say so much about us and society with so few words? It's an amazing book that only takes 15 minutes to read, but will make you want to share it with countless others. It's a book that will make you think about what is important in life and where some of life's little aggravations come from. Recommend it, or loan it, to your friends, family, and your boss (I did).

The Simple Life

Kaplan's book is a small wonder, a wittily observant tale about two people who discover that the world we live in is Hell itself. Kaplan's wry humor gives us reason to believe things are about as bad as they can get: from the pointlessness of the arts to the garishness of McMansions, the bankruptcy of government to the spoils of Wal-Mart. Yet in the midst of such decline, Edmund and Rosemary find solace in small pleasures, the simple things that give us comfort in our daily lives: listening to the rain outside, caring for a pet, having a confidante. Ultimately, then, Kaplan's book is a modest call to appreciate those small pleasures and to put our worries, faults, foibles into some perspective. Kaplan's spare artistry works to great effect here, and his book will hopefully remind you that there's much to take comfort in, even feel good about, when the world around us seems irrevocably damned. It's a welcome parable for our times.