Hotel de Dream
By: Edmund White
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury. 1 Paperback(s)
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780747590590; 9780747592792
Subjects: Fiction; American Novelists; Tuberculosis; Patients; Male prostitutes; History; Skönlitteratur
Description: The famed writer Stephen Crane is travelling to a German clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. Knowing it may be his last chance, he dictates the story of 'The Painted Boy', inspired by a real-life encounter. But as the story delves into the seedy underworld of turn-of-the-century Manhattan, Crane's health deteriorates and the outcome of the story becomes as critical as the author's life itself.