America's Magic Mountain (Lannan Selection) - Softcover

White, Curtis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564783693 ISBN 13: 9781564783691

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005

Synopsis

Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book, though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centres. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves from addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognisable as our own.

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Review:

.".. perfect for sardonic social satire... " -- Publishers Weekly

..". perfect for sardonic social satire... " -- Publishers Weekly

..". perfect for sardonic social satire... "--Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:

AN ENTHRALLING CONTEMPORARY VERSION OF THOMAS MANN'S THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man", Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book, though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centres. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves from addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognisable as our own.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1564783693
• ISBN 13: 9781564783691
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 231