Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux
Exiled from life elsewhere, a former writer is the narrator of Paul Theroux's first novel since KOWLOON TONG. Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, he is drawn into the chaotic lives of his guests and into the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting, and often ribald, chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately finds personal salvation through returning to writing once again. The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and just-as-strange islanders confronting each other, and their fate, in the rooms of the seedy hotel.
Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941 and published his first novel, WALDO, in 1967. His subsequent novels include PICTURE PALACE, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction; THE MOSQUITO COAST and KOWLOON TONG. Paul Theroux has also published numerous travel books, including THE OLD PATAGONIA EXPRESS. He has been described by Jonathan Raban as "the most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation."
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241141304 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241141303 |
| Title | Hotel Honolulu |
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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