Love Hotel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A novel about a mysterious love triangle and the almost mythological power—and potentially lethal danger—of eros.
Working on behalf of a cunning and mysterious couple, a woman embarks on a haunting search for a stranger (a child? somebody’s lover? a ghost?) and undertakes a perplexing, dangerous, deeply layered, and apparently timeless journey originating on a secluded country estate and leading deep into the erotic center of a transient location in the city. Love Hotel explores a heartbreaking and nightmarish world of unrelenting excess, impossible convergences, undeniable urges, and inexorable loss. Jane Unrue’s writing, beautifully cunning and mysterious itself, twists and turns and lures the reader on with a heightened charged erotic magnetism of its own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this minimal and evocative new novel by Unrue (Life of a Star), an unnamed female narrator is asked by a wealthy and mysterious couple to locate a missing person. The search carries her from the couple's rural country mansion to a city hotel known for its sexual encounters. The book is evasive, and peeling back one layer reveals another. Dramatic perspective shifts, poetic structure, and an absence of commas dent the distinction between interior and exterior, imagined and real. "A week/I think/It's hard to say. No depth. No clear perspective. No free space. /before I met them I had started having problems with my/Previously/But this had been my pattern for as long as/sleep." The encroachment of one idea into another's space reflects the narrator's "limited fragmented" mental state. While there are moments when the text comes together to provide clear insight, the inherent obfuscation of writing often interferes. The novel is deliberately constructed to disorient and challenge, demanding that readers infer relevance and join the narrator's search for meaning. Because the story acts as a venue to showcase an innovative writing style, the book feels a bit unsubstantive and lacking in characterization and plot, but it is a clever piece of writing.
