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Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise

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Also collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and originally published in Harper's, this is another travelogue turned existential rumination that shows unabashedly and hilariously the horrors of society (this time via a cruise ship) and really says more about the author himself.

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Length 24 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Harper's Magazine
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Identifier (ISBN) 46223743
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