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The Occidental Hotel

By: John Bentley Mays
Narrated by: Adam Daniel Mezei
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Summary

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 controversial German artist, Joseph 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.

©2020 John Bentley Mays (P)2021 Guernica Editions
20th Century Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Noir Psychological United States World Literature
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