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The Hotel Eden, and other stories by Carlson, Ron., Ron Carlson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Hotel Eden, and other stories about?

In the title story a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers - as many 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 through 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, Ron Carlson takes us to a generous array of places in a new way. Finally, in "The Chromium Hook," he takes us to a lovers' lane where he solves an ancient mystery. Carlson's work has always made a difference. His men and women are resourceful creatures, driven and derided by conscience, comforted by the possibility of love, and at all times ready for the next thing.

Author

Carlson, Ron., Ron Carlson

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393331790

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14