Hotel Honolulu

Hotel Honolulu
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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2008

نویسنده

George Guidall

شابک

9781436145114
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نقد و بررسی

AudioFile Magazine
HOTEL HONOLULU perfectly matches George Guidall's many talents. Guidall's voice resonates as he describes the lush tapestry of Hawaii and intimately conveys the story's blocked narrator. The hotel's guest list includes a compelling assortment of multinational guests. This is a tale in which inhabitants of west and east truly meet in Paradise. While not every character's personal story ends triumphantly, wounds hurt less because time and space seem limitless, and the landscape is always hopeful. M.D.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

April 2, 2001
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that we believe is of paramount interest to our readers but that hasn't received a starred or boxed review. HOTEL HONOLULU Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, $26 (432p) ISBN 0-618-14613-X Scrappy, satiric and frowsily exotic, this loosely constructed novel of debauchery and frustrated ambition in present-day Hawaii debunks the myth of the island as a vacationer's paradise. The episodic narrative is presided over by two protagonists: the unnamed narrator, a has-been writer who leaves the mainland to manage the seedy Hotel Honolulu, and raucous millionaire Buddy Hamstra, the hotel's owner and former manager, who fired himself to give the narrator his job. The narrator is at once amused and moved by Buddy, "a big, blaspheming, doggy-eyed man in drooping shorts," who is as reckless in his personal life as he is in his business dealings. He hires the writer despite his lack of qualifications, and the writer returns the favor in loyalty and affection, acting as witness to Buddy's flamboyant decline. As the hotel's manager, the writer comes to know a succession of downtrodden travelers and Hawaii residents, each more eccentric than the next. Typical are a wealthy lawyer whose amassed fortune does not bring him happiness; a past-her-prime gossip columnist involved in a love triangle with her bisexual son and her son's male lover; and a man who is obsessed with a woman he meets through the personals. Theroux, never one to tread lightly, often portrays native Hawaiians—including the writer's wife—as simpleminded, craven souls. But he is an equal-opportunity satirist, skewering all his characters except perhaps his alter-ego narrator and Leon Edel, the real-life biographer of Henry James, who makes an extended, unlikely cameo appearance. The lack of conventional plot and the dreariness of life at Hotel Honolulu make the narrative drag at times, but Theroux's ear and eye are as sharp as ever, his prose as clean and supple. (May)Forecast: A nine-city author tour kicks off a promotional blitz for
Hotel Honolulu, which includes a sweepstakes with a trip to Hawaii as prize. More carefully worked than
Kowloon Tong, Theroux's last novel, and more familiar in setting, this may be one of the part-time Hawaii resident's better selling efforts.




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