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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel

By Edmund White

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0060852267, 9780060852269, 0060852259, 9780060852252, 9780061495151
Open Library ID
OL24265615M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1324647 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
240\241
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange and poignant novel of a boy prostitute in 1890s New York and the married man who ruins his own life to win his love.

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