America's magic mountain : a novel / Curtis White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Curtis, 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Fiction.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Rehabilitation centers.

Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.

Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--Fiction.

Rehabilitation centers--Fiction.

Health resorts--Fiction.

Health resorts.

Alcoholics--Fiction.

Alcoholics.

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal : Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.

Summary:

A contemporary version of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain, Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centers. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves of their addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognizable as our own.

ISBN:

1564783693

OCLC:

55657495