Hotel Honolulu : A Novel
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618095012
- ISBN 13
- 9780618095018
- Seller
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Synopsis
Welcome to the Hotel Honolulu, a down-at-the-heels tourist place that’s two blocks from the beach on a back street in Waikiki, where middle America stays and dreams. Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest in this eighty-room hotel has come in search of something sun, love, happiness, unnamable longing and everyone has a story. Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all land at the Hotel Honolulu. But the hotel is as suited to being a crime scene as a love nest. Fortunately, our keen-eyed narrator, a writer down on his luck, is there to relate all the comings and goings. He’s lost money, friends, house, and family, and he has no experience running a hotel. But all that doesn’t stop Buddy, the bloated, boozy hotel owner the last of a dying breed from signing him on as manager. It isn’t long before the hotel expands to encompass the narrator’s whole world. His original plan of escape from a life of the mind becomes something altogether different: a way to return to the world he left, the world of imagined life. No one but Paul Theroux could write this romp of a book, with its acutely drawn characters and canny insights into a place that is often viewed as a simple island paradise. In this unforgettable novel, Theroux shows us a funny, languid, louche floating world, island style. This is the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted, and it is also the heart of America.
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- Bookseller
- Mad Myrtle's Book Haven (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 03050596
- Title
- Hotel Honolulu : A Novel
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618095012
- ISBN 13
- 9780618095018
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- HAWAII FICTION HUMOROUS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novel;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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