The Hotel Eden: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393331790)

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
ISBN-10: 0393331792
ISBN-13: 9780393331790
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1997
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.59d