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Also by Ron Carlson:

Return to Oakpine, July 2013
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Return To Oakpine, July 2013
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Five Skies, May 2007
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The Hotel Eden: Stories, May 1997
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THE HOTEL EDEN: STORIES
By: Ron Carlson

Stories

W. W. Norton & Company
May 1997
On Sale: May 1, 1997
224 pages
ISBN: 0393331792
EAN: 9780393331790
Kindle: B00G3YO3BY
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Fiction

Prepare to be amused, moved, disturbed. These stories by a master of idiosyncrasy visit a world where wit has heft, charm has shadow, and human beings act out all the complicated nuances of love.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 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 dudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.

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