The Hotel Eden stories
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Norton, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1003084M
- ISBN-100393040682
- OCLC Control Number35298707
- OCLC Control Numberhoteledenstories0000carl
- Library of Congress Control Number96042425
and 2 more
- LibraryThing306038
- Goodreads1517375
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3553.A733 H68 1997
Description
In the title story a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers - as many others have - that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In "Zanduce at Second," a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray ("A Note on the Type") as he carves his name on a culvert wall. We drive through the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening ("Oxygen"). In these and other stories, whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, Ron Carlson takes us to a generous array of places in a new way. Finally, in "The Chromium Hook," he takes us to a lovers' lane where he solves an ancient mystery. Carlson's work has always made a difference. His men and women are resourceful creatures, driven and derided by conscience, comforted by the possibility of love, and at all times ready for the next thing.
Genres
- Fiction.
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