The Call-Girls

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First edition (publ. Hutchinson)

The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue is a novel (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) by Arthur Koestler. The plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.

In this novel Koestler introduces the term cocacolonization to refer to the expansion of a typical modern diet, consisting of such fare as hamburgers, French fries, fat-rich snacks, soft drinks high in sugar. Nowadays the term is widely used by physicians when they want to explain, at least in part, the global expansion of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors.

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Novels	The Gladiators Darkness at Noon Arrival and Departure Thieves in the Night The Call-Girls

Nonfiction	The Encyclopœdia of Sexual Knowledge The Sleepwalkers The Lotus and the Robot The Act of Creation The Ghost in the Machine The Roots of Coincidence The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973 The Thirteenth Tribe Janus: A Summing Up

Autobiography	Spanish Testament Scum of the Earth Dialogue with Death The God that Failed Arrow in the Blue The Invisible Writing Stranger on the Square

Related articles	Arthur Koestler (book) Koestler Trust Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945–51 Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship

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