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The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales
By various authors
HarperCollins, 207 pages, $14.95
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Bah, humbug. Forget the fruitcake and bring this quirky book to your holiday hosts this season. Eighteen authors–including Binnie Kirshenbaum, Neal Pollack and Amy Krouse Rosenthal–recall with keen awareness the lousy times gone by. Ann Patchett’s story of botched Christmases is worth the price of admission.