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Hotel de Dream Edmund White

Hotel de Dream By Edmund White

Hotel de Dream by Edmund White


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Summary

A moving, expertly crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific authors

Hotel de Dream Summary

Hotel de Dream by Edmund White

______________ 'Eccentric, disgracefully funny and shockingly beautiful by turns; determined both to describe the world as it really is and to invent it anew' - Guardian 'Powerful ... full of telling period detail and couched in White's customary honeyed prose ... This is a tender and moving book worthy of its distinguished protagonist' - Daily Mail 'The masterfully multi-layered Hotel de Dream is an illuminating commentary on storytelling' - Financial Times 'White's imaginative recreations of Crane's work provide the novel's best passages ... his mimetic prose is marvellously convincing ... engrossing' - Sunday Times ______________ A moving, expertly crafted novel from one of New York's most prolific authors. The famed writer Stephen Crane is travelling to a German clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. Knowing it may be his last chance, he dictates the story of 'The Painted Boy', inspired by a real-life encounter. But as the story delves into the seedy underworld of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, Crane's health deteriorates and the outcome of the story becomes as critical as the author's life itself.

Hotel de Dream Reviews

'Eccentric, disgracefully funny and shockingly beautiful by turns; determined both to describe the world as it really is and to invent it anew' * Guardian *
'Powerful ... full of telling period detail and couched in White's customary honeyed prose .... This is a tender and moving book worthy of its distinguished protagonist' * Daily Mail *
'The masterfully multi-layered Hotel de Dream is an illuminating commentary on storytelling' * Financial Times *
'White's imaginative recreations of Crane's work provide the novel's best passages ... his mimetic prose is marvellously convincing ... engrossing' * Sunday Times *

About Edmund White

Edmund White has written one previous historical novel, Fanny: A Fiction. He is best known for his trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, and the bestselling The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris. He is the author of a long biography of Jean Genet and a short life of Marcel Proust. White lives in New York and teaches writing at Princeton.

Additional information

GOR001411398
9780747592792
0747592799
Hotel de Dream by Edmund White
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20080901
240
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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