| The Occidental Hotel: Volume 181 Contributor(s): Mays, John (Author), Collins, Anne (Introduction by), Rhodes, Richard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1771835141 ISBN-13: 9781771835145 Publisher: Guernica Editions OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Noir |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.88 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mays's passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys. -Quill and Quire 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. |