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Hotel de Dream
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'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
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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.
Product details
| Published | 01 Sep 2008 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9780747592792 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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