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	Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city the Czech Republic.
		Prague suffered serious flooding in August 2002 with parts of the city having be evacuated.
		Prague is served by Ruzyne International Airport which is the hub of the carrier CSA Czech Airlines
	www.freeglossary.com /Prague (945 words)

	Prague - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Prague (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prague's attempt to follow a moderate course in the wars was frustrated (1424) by an army led by John Žižka.
		In the War of the Austrian Succession, Prague was occupied by the French (1742) and the Prussians (1744); and in the Seven Years War it was (1757) the scene of a major victory of Frederick II Frederick II or Frederick the Great, 1712–86, king of Prussia (1740–86), son and successor of Frederick William I.
		In 1968 the "Prague Spring," a brief period of liberal reforms attempted by the government of Alexander Dubček, was ended with the invasion of the Soviet military.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Prague (1550 words)

	prague — a novel by arthur phillips
		Prague receives the 2002 Art Seidenbaum prize for best first fiction by the Los Angeles Times.
		Prague is named a 2002 New York Times Notable Book.
		Prague is named one of the best novels of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times.
	www.praguethenovel.com /news.html (311 words)

	Prague Pill Issue 13 - Budapest
		The true expat novel is a messy stack of lined, beer-stained notebook paper, its author naked and passed out on a sofa-bed with a seventeen year-old named Blanka.
		Basing a novel on a flawed concept is forgivable; executing that concept this badly is not.
		Prague is alluded to a total of four times in the book as an idealized alternative to doudy Budapest with its lesser fame and foreign investment.
	prague.tv /pill/article.php?name=budapest (973 words)

	Prague Travel
		Prague is a historical novel by Arthur Phillips about a group of North American expatriates in Budapest, Hungary circa 1990, at the end of the cold war.
		Two incidents in the history of Bohemia are known as the Defenestrations of Prague, the first in 1419 and the second in 1618 (though the second is generally considered ''The'' Defenestration of Prague).
		At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants tried two Imperial governors (Vilem Slavata and Jaroslav Martinic) for violating the Letter of Majesty, found them guilty and threw them, together with their scribe Fabricius, out of the high castle windows and into a large and conveniently-placed pile of manure.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/159/prague-travel.html (2075 words)

	Book Reviews
		The second is that it takes place not in Prague (the happening city for young westerners in 1990, the year in which it is set), but in Budapest.
		The joke glances off Rimbaud's line "life is elsewhere", by way of Kundera's novel of that name; but it also has a touch of Wayne's World about it (as in "Prague...Not!") and as such is an instance of the novel's mixture of the sophisticated and the entertainingly...
		Phillips' rapturously praised first novel, Prague, is both an act of homage to an entrenched literary tradition and a truly contemporary work of impressive originality--precisely the kind of balancing act one might expect from an author whose biography embodies contrasts and defies expectations...
	www.rusoffagency.com /fiction/prague/prague_reviews.htm (1061 words)

	Watermark Books & Cafe - Reviews
		Prague was the media darling that Budapest never was -- the louder, bolder, larger, hipper, older, communism to capitalism sister of the two -- which, is the point.
		The characters in "Prague" wish they were in Prague instead of Budapest; where it’s happening instead of where it’s almost happening, but that doesn’t seem to factor into the story as much as it does the marketing campaign.
		Of a time and a place where one couldn’t walk across a barroom without spilling his or her drink on ten expats who were there to write their "Prague novel," Phillips has at least produced one of these much heard about but rarely seen manuscripts, and that in itself is an accomplishment.
	www.watermarkbooks.com /review0802-007.html (521 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Prague by Arthur Phillips
		The novel is named not for a city, but for an emotional disorder.
		Prague's reputation as the reincarnation of Paris in the 1920s may or may not have been earned, but of course Paris in the 1920s was probably not really Paris in the 1920s until A Moveable Feast was published in 1964.
		It's a novel, and I was therefore free to fudge and fiddle whenever I liked the sound of something better than the truth.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/prague2.asp (943 words)

	Prague (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prague opens on the afternoon of May 25, 1990 with the five central expatriates playing a game of "Sincerity", a game whose object is to detect the other participants' lies, and to evade the detection of one's own lies.
		Rather, Prague represents the unfulfilled emotional desires of the novel's main characters; it is the city where-- as the novel's characters perceive-- there is more life, capital flows more freely, and there are better parties, than in Budapest.
		About one-fifth of the novel deals exclusively with the history of the Horvath family's publishing house-- through Habsburg rule, an 1848 revolution, a pre-World War I "golden age" (characterized, despite its charms, by cultural squabblings and anti-Semitism), then decades of turmoil through the World Wars and Soviet occupation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prague_(novel) (1078 words)

	Amazon.com: Prague: A Novel: Books: Arthur Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up.
		Prague is the story of five ex-patriots living in Budapest in 1990, just after Hungary became an independent nation.
		Prague is clever, arch, self-aware, eurudite, sometimes witty, and often well-written.
	www.amazon.com /Prague-Novel-Arthur-Phillips/dp/0375759778 (2595 words)

	Prague Czech Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prague is the wealthiest city in Central and Eastern Europe, and wealthier than many in Western Europe, with a per-capita GDP (PPP) of EUR 31,369, which is at 149% of the European Union average.
		Prague is served by Ruzyne International Airport, which is the hub of the flag carrier, CSA Czech Airlines.
		PRAGUE- Ombudsman Otakar Motejl has arrived at the conclusion that police crackdown on participants in the CzechTek 2005 techno music rave in Mlynec, west Bohemia, in late July was legal, according to the final report on the examination carried out by Motejl on his own initiative, Pravo writes.
	www.prague-online.info (9179 words)

	Amazon.ca: Prague: Books: Arthur Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His story is set solidly in the Budapest of the early nineties, a city of terminal ironists finding their number lightly swollen by the arrival of young North American idealists, career professionals, adventurers of different stripes, and the merely lost.
		The book is not about Prague, but about the idea of Prague, the more desirable destination in the Mitteleuropean goulash of possibilities, the next place.
		And while the trademark of a novel is that it can call itself Prague no matter where its story takes place, here the publisher actually subverts Phillips's intent by having the book wrapped in a beautiful pointillist photograph of the far too identifiable Charles Bridge.
	www.amazon.ca /Prague-Arthur-Phillips/dp/0375507876 (2071 words)

	Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 5 main characters of Phillips books are forever looking toward Prague while chasing money, love, and in one interesting case family through Budapest in the early 1990's.
		When I finished Prague, I felt like I truly cared about not only the outcome, but the characters themselves.
		The National Revival - Prague historyThe Austrian hegemony in the Czech was too long, with the result -general decline of the Czech culture and language.
	www.prague-online.info /data/56.php (433 words)

	Prague Description
		PRAGUE depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune — financial, romantic, and spiritual — in an exotic city newly opened to the West.
		They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of post–Cold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better.
		PRAGUE is one of those rare books that help define and identify a whole generation, in the same way that Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises introduced his own lost generation."
	www.rusoffagency.com /fiction/prague/prague.htm (430 words)

	prague — a novel by arthur phillips
		To John Price, a young man who aspires to Life, but only leads a life, Prague glows — the place where Real Life carouses, a party where you were expected an hour ago while, hour after maddening hour, you can't button your dreamily unwieldy shirt.
		In Prague, the present limps to a sorry third-place finish, far behind the potential glories of the future and the fairytale splendor of the past.
		That the actual city of Prague resembles the lovely, ghostly setting of a dimly recalled and yearningly significant fairytale is no mean coincidence.
	www.praguethenovel.com /history.html (718 words)

	The Next Generation Bookrounds Clubs
		A first novel, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune - financial, romantic, and spiritual - in an exotic city newly opened to the West.
		They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of post-Cold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better.
		In this novel about the search for authenticity, all five of the main characters have secret desires that move them and the book forward.
	www.bookrounds.com /book/Prague.html (2746 words)

	Word Riot
		In Prague, unfortunately, the most interesting character is an exiled Hungarian publisher, Imre Horvath, that Phillips requires fifty-seven pages to create in the form of an excruciatingly tedious family genealogy.
		Phillips shouldn't have to spend two hundred fifty seven pages of a work (to that point) describing the inner lives and neuroses of his characters only to sum it up in bits of dialogue, in case any readers are so distracted or bored with the work that they need expository direction.
		For those who haven't read Prague, a certain amount of faith is required to accept this statement at face value but Phillips had already written volumes about John's own inner turmoil, his silly infatuation with number 2 and his struggles to reconcile with his brother, number 4.
	www.wordriot.org /template.php?ID=200 (859 words)

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		Arthur Phillips's first novel, Prague, attracted a good deal of critical attention and won significant acclaim.
		At the very best, Prague is an imaginative, original and excellently written novel.
		But in my opinion Phillips is at his best when he leaves his characters for a while and goes off on a long tangent about the history of a small Hungarian publishing house in the second part of the book.
	members.lycos.co.uk /latvianchick/phillips.html (619 words)

	Product Reviews - Prague: A Novel - HDTVEdge.com - Get the HDTV Edge with the Latest News, Reviews and Hot Deals
		This novel is set in Budapest [why it is called "Prague" is well explained in an interview of the author included in the book] of the early 1990's, not too long after the fall of Communism.
		Prague is the sort of novel on which reputations, and reified loves of literature are built.
		Prague is one of the rare books that made me want to flip back to page one and start over when I finished.
	www.hdtvedge.com /reviews-0375759778.html (10386 words)

	Bruner Blog: Rick Bruner's self-indulgent rants, peeves, trivial obsessions, etc.
		Like Rob McLean, living in Prague, Carlson remains a resident of the East, in Budapest in his case, where he has resided for the past 14 years, so his perspective is notable.
		Prague resident Rob McLean read my rant on Prague and replied, pointing out (among other things) that I misspelled the ethnic identity of his hosts.
		I used to joke that Prague was where expats went to write their first novel, and Budapest was where they went to make their first million, crawling as it was with would-be entrepreneurs, schemers and con artists.
	www.bruner.net /blog/2002_06_30_blarchive.shtml (3837 words)

	Cover to Cover - Book Circles Exploring the Best in Jewish American Literature
		A novel of startling scope and ambition, PRAGUE depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune.
		They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.
		At the end of the novel, journalist John Price, arguably the central character of the novel, is en route to the city of Prague.
	www.joi.org /books/reading/Prague.htm (762 words)

	Leisurely Thoughts
		Prague represents the place where everybody would rather be during that exciting time in Eastern/Central Europe, but nobody ever ends up there.
		Prague seems to be selling well locally (Could it be the "born in Minneapolis" phrase?).
		Meanwhile, I get emails most days from "German Mama", sailing around the Scandinavian Baltic Sea with her husband (and her shipload of novels) for most of the summer, and she is telling me about the wild, rainy, stormy weather they have been having for most of this time.
	www.needahand.com /chatter3.htm (5458 words)

	Prague: A Novel - smh.com.au
		In its subjects' evident longing to belong to a Lost Generation, Prague reveals an envy of Paris in the 1920s rather than Czechoslovakia in the '90s.
		While Prague's opening section is concerned with debating the nature and difficulty of exile, its remainder is engagingly narrative-driven.
		It is his stubborn preservation of foolishness that illuminates; his acceptance of emotion neither warped by nostalgia nor airbrushed by idealism in which he strikes the difficult balance that this intriguing novel has aimed at achieving - a balance which is the mark of the successful exile, and of the artist.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/25/1035504875700.html (410 words)

	Berlin, Prague, & Vienna
		Our youth tours in Germany are heavier than a Charles Dickens novel, Prague and Berlin are stocked with enough fodder for culture vultures and history buffs alike.
		One of the most beautiful cities in the world, Prague is a true survivor having amazingly escaped destruction in World War II.
		We cross the border and arrive in the Czech Republic for 3 nights in Prague, the golden city built on Seven Hills across the River Vltava.
	www.christmasmarkettours.com /wintertours/BerlinPragueVienna.html (533 words)

	Hennepin County Library - Author! Author! Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His first novel, Prague, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and the recipient of the Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum prize for best first novel.
		Your first novel took place in Budapest where you lived for a while.
		Phillips: I did live a couple of years in Budapest, and the inspiration (although not the result) of Prague was autobiographical.
	www.hclib.org /pub/books/AuthorOnlineOct04.cfm (1134 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Prague, by Arthur Phillips, Paperback
		Prague, rich in history and beautifully written, ultimately explores the flight of the human soul toward some kind of truth and reveals that through exile from one's home, country, and history, self-perception can be plucked and ripened like a fruit on a window sill.
		Prague is one of the best first novels I've read in several years.
		But Phillips promises to be a strong new American voice, and Prague is the largest-minded first novel since Mark Z. Danielewski's audacious House of Leaves in 2000.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0375759778&itm=1 (2304 words)

	The Egyptologist — A Novel by Arthur Phillips
		Phillips's wildly inventive second novel is hard to resist....Phillips's pitch-perfect ventriloquism is a wonder....Phillips triumphs.
		This is a suave, elegant novel, replete with sinuously composed sentences and delicious wordplay....Phillips's formidable research and witty prose make this one well worth your time.
		The novel as funhouse mirror -- a zesty celebration of the Big Lie....A delicious pleasure of the novel is finding the clues, both subtle and broad, that Phillips plants.
	www.theegyptologist.com /reviews.html (1077 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - Arthur Phillips' Prague
		Random House, 373pp., $24.95 Near the top of page five in Arthur Phillips' first novel, Prague, the author is suddenly seized at the throat by the irresistible urge to lay his cards on the table.
		Prague is set sternly in 1990, "immediately following 1989-90's hissing, flapping deflation of Communism," and features four Americans and one Canadian in their own self-consciously Lost Generation eager to be in Budapest and to forget where they came from, even the cheery, sun-scrubbed woman from Nebraska.
		Phillips' angle of attack is sly and revelatory; he throws together past and present in a seemingly haphazard collage that is all calculation and sublime payoff in one of 2002's most notable accomplishments.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-12/books_readings.html (659 words)

	Prague Travel: prague a novel by arthur phillips (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prague Travel: prague a novel by arthur phillips (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)
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		Prague Information Service (tourist info and album of photos) Czech Republic lodging guide.
	www.archivery.net.cob-web.org:8888 /Prague-Travel/2006/02/prague-novel-by-arthur-phillips.html (237 words)

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