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"Distance" describes how self-absorbed actor Timothy Carson, while making a film in Prague, decides that converting to Judaism will make him a deeper person. While he learns the troubled history of the Jewish people he must also deal with the death of his assistant, travelers cheques, adoring fans, lots of people with missing fingers, and his rivalry with Christian Slater.
Author's Note:
Though the story contains none of its elements, "Distance" was inspired by a dream wherein John Travolta was being pursued around Budapest by tiny robot dinosaurs.
"Distance" appeared previously as “The Distance Between Prague and New Orleans,” in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops (anthology),
Simon & Schuster, 1997.
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