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In Paul Theroux's first novel since KOWLOON TONG, the newly-married 49 year-old narrator, exiled from his old life elsewhere and his former profession of writing, is drawn into the chaotic lives of his guests and into the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting, and often ribald, chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately finds personal salvation through returning to writing once again. The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and just-as-strange islanders confronting each other, and their fate, in the rooms of the seedy hotel.
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"What makes Hotel Honolulu so remarkable is the way it reveals the demons and doubts that beset a complicated man." -Sunday Times
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"What makes Hotel Honolulu so remarkable is the way it reveals the demons and doubts that beset a complicated man." -Sunday Times
"...The book is witty insicive and original." -Rob Forrester, Traveling, Daily Express
"...Paul Theroux’s skill as a writer ensures you become so embroiled in the lives of his characters, your interest is held to the very last page." -The list
"...Theroux’s best for a decade...alive, rich, demotic, breathing comedy...." -Independent
"...an engrossing tragicomedywhich no writer worth the name could fail to recount." -Independent on Sunday
"...Everything in Hotel Honolulu rings true. Above all, the generosity of spirit." -Sunday Telegraph
"Theroux has always been a remarkably vivid writer, and perhaps, never more so than here." -Sunday Telegraph
"Hotel Honolulu is cleverly constructed – a page turner" -The Times
Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0241141311
- ISBN 13 9780241141311
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages448
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