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The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981
D M Thomas
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Description for The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981
Paperback. A novel of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history, the Booker Prize shortlisted THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35col.ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
The worldwide bestselling, Booker-shortlisted modern classic
Now a BBC radio play starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson, dramatised by Dennis Potter.
'Spine-tingling... heart-stunning' New York Times
'A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force' Salman Rushdie
'This novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze' Time
'Precise, troubling, brilliant' Observer
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The White Hotel is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history.
It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753809259
SKU
V9780753809259
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99-50
About D M Thomas
D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher until he became a full-time writer. His novels include THE FLUTE PLAYER, ARARAT, SWALLOW, SPHINX, SUMMIT, FLYING INTO LOVE and EATING PAVLOVA. He has also published memoirs, several volumes of poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova. He now lives ... Read more
Reviews for The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981
A novel of blazing imaginative and intellectual force
Salman Rushdie To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning
The New York Times
Astonishing ... A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, ... Read more
Salman Rushdie To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is heart-stunning
The New York Times
Astonishing ... A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, ... Read more