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.
"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.