The Hotel Eden: Stories

In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers--as others have--that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In Zanduce at Second, a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray ("A Note on the Type") as he carves his name on a culvert wall. We drive the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening (Oxygen). In these and other stories, whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.

Author: Ron Carlson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/17/1997
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780393331790
ISBN10: 0393331792
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)