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Hotel Honolulu

Hotel Honolulu

Author(s): Paul Theroux

Location(s): Honolulu

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

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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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“…Everything in Hotel Honolulu rings true. Above all, the generosity of spirit.” -Sunday Telegraph

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