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The occidental hotel / John Bentley Mays ; with essays by Antanas Sileika, Anne Collins & Richard Rhodes.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.M423 O23 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mays, John Bentley, author.
- Series:
- Essential prose series ; 181.
- Essential prose series ; 181
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, one who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W G Sebald and incorporating outrageous elements of pulp fiction, this novel of dark romanticism is not for optimists seeking redemption, but for those willing to take a look into a searing heart of darkness."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mays, John Bentley. Occidental hotel.
- ISBN:
- 9781771835145
- 1771835141
- OCLC:
- 1114266908
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