The Hotel Eden Stories
by Ron Carlson
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Prepare to be amused, moved, and disturbed. With these twelve exceptional tales, Ron Carlson takes readers to a world where wit has heft, charm has shadow, and human beings act out all the complicated nuances of love.In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers -- as many others have -- that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In "Zanduce at Second", a baseball player turned kille by accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray in "A Note show more on the Type" and drive through the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening in "Oxygen".Carlson's work has always made a difference. Whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, he takes us to a generous array of places in a new way. show lessTags
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A series of creative, intriguing stories by an author who's clearly lived. Favorites: "What We Were Trying to Do" and "Oxygen." I found the title work more disturbing and amiguous.
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Ron Carlson directs the graduate program in fiction at the University of California, Irvine.
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- Canonical title
- The Hotel Eden Stories
- Original publication date
- 1997 (1st edition) (1st edition)
- Disambiguation notice
- Full title (1997): The Hotel Eden stories / Ron Carlson; Contents: The Hotel Eden -- Keith -- The prisoner of Bluestone -- Zanduce at second -- The house... (show all) goes up -- What we wanted to do -- The chromium hook -- A note on the type -- Nightcap -- Dr. Slime -- Down the green river -- Oxygen
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- English
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