The White Hotel

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981

D M Thomas

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English

Phoenix
01 March 2000

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Erotic fiction; Historical fiction; Second World War; The self, ego, identity, personality

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying, yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling. The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.

By: D M Thomas
Imprint: Phoenix
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9780753809259
ISBN 10: 0753809257
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 March 2000
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

DM 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 in Cornwall.

Reviews for The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981

This is a story of eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a vision of the wounds of the 20th-century, and an attempt to heal them. (Kirkus UK)