| Hotel Honolulu (2001) |
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| 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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| Sales Order No.: 61825575 Bookseller: Babel Fish Purchase Method: Visa Payment Processed By: Abebooks Estimated Delivery Date: August 16, 2008 Author: Theroux, Paul. Title: Hotel Honolulu Bookseller Book No.: 000590 Price: US$ 34.50 Book Description: 1st ed., 1st printing, signed by Paul Theroux on tp. As new in all respects, both book and dj., without marks or flaws. Not price clipped, nor a remainder, dj. is protected in archival mylar cover. Ships in a sturdy cardboard box, NOT a padded envelope. Date Processed: July 27, 2008 Approximate Shipping Speed: 5 - 14 business days Orders are usually shipped within 2 business days Total Book Price: US$ 34.50 Updated Shipping: US$ 3.00 Updated Total Order Amount: US$ 37.50 |