
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.
‘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 *
‘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 *
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.
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ISBN 13 | 9780747592792 |
ISBN 10 | 0747592799 |
Title | Hotel de Dream |
Author | Edmund White |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Year published | 2008-09-01 |
Number of pages | 240 |
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