The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981 - Softcover

D M Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753809257 ISBN 13: 9780753809259

Publisher: Phoenix, 1999

Synopsis

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate. I quickly came to feel that I had found that book, that mythical book, that would explain us to ourselves Leslie Epstein, New York Times

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Review:

A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force (Salman Rushdie)

To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning (The New York Times)

Astonishing ... A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness (John Updike)

A dazzler that lingers in the mind

(People)

A remarkable and original novel ... there is no novel to my knowledge which resembles this in technique or ideas. It stands alone (Graham Greene)

This novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze (Time)

Precise, troubling, brilliant (Observer)

Book Description:

A novel of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history, the Booker Prize shortlisted THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0753809257
• ISBN 13: 9780753809259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240