The White Hotel
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.7
D. M. Thomas
The million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller“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 TimesIt 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 the twentieth 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.
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Author
D. M. Thomas
Pages
288
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
1993-09-01
ISBN
1101651504 9781101651506
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"I was required to read it for Modern British Fiction, a senior level college English class for my major of English (and I minored in Spanish).
The first page of The White Hotel is a half page. I was blushing like crazy by the end of the next page. I thought, "I'm not going to tell my parents about this one (I didn't know what a cuss word was until I went to school)". I own up to reading it now, but not until a few years after."
Marinda Boydstun
