The Hotel Eden: Stories

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 root for escaped felon Ray ("A Note on the Type") as he carves his name on a culvert wall. 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 nudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.

Author: Ron Carlson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/1997
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780393331790

About the Author
Carlson, Ron: - Ron Carlson teaches creative writing at Arizona State and lives in Scottsdale. His stories, much anthologized, have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Playboy, and other magazines.