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Synopsis
The narrator of Theroux's novel, a failed writer, manages a rundown hotel in Hawaii for a flamboyant character named Buddy Hamstra. The hotel--and in fact the entire city--seems to be people entirely by eccentrics, including a lawyer made melancholy by his wealth, a woman obsessed with her gay son, and--perhaps oddest of all--Leon Edel, the biographer of Henry James. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
| Size | | Length: | 424 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"HOTEL HONOLULU...is extravagantly entertaining when it works, which is at least half the time, but it is also a novel whose whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein (05/16/2001)
"This is a foolish book that celebrates foolishness. It has no great point but to marvel at human variety, its squalor and its liveliness."
Book - Penelope Mesic
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