Hotel Honolulu
by:
Paul Theroux (author)
Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer 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...
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Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140299366 (014029936X)
Publish date: May 2nd 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Hated it. There is so much degradation towards women it's disgusting. Basically what I got out it was that women are evil, power hungry and only good for sex but only the most degrading kind. Yeah. Will not be reading another of his books.
The latest novel by one of my favorite writers. Theroux is almost better known for his travel writing than his novels (Mosquito Coast, Saint Jack, My Secret History to name a few), but I'm a fan of all of his work. There is something about his main characters (usually thinly veiled versions of the a...
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