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Hotel Honolulu: A Novel

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In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted.

The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach.

Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all check in to the hotel.

Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest has come in search of something -- sun, love, happiness, objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story.

By turns hilarious, ribald, tender, and tragic, HOTEL HONOLULU offers a unique glimpse of the psychological landscape of an American paradise.

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Product Details
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0547526334 / 9780547526331
eBook (EPUB)
15/05/2002
English
432 pages
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