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The Occidental Hotel - Essential Prose, Book 181 (Unabridged)
- Author
- John Bentley Mays
- Narrator
- Adam Daniel Mezei
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Publish Date
- 15 February 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- John Bentley Mays
- Narrator
- Adam Daniel Mezei
- Duration
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781771836630
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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, an anti-hero 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 late 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.
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