The Third Hotel (Signed First Edition)

VAN DEN BERG, Laura

ISBN 10: 0374168350 / ISBN 13: 9780374168353

Published by Ecco, New York, 2018

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Number 75 of Powell's Indiespensable series. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Signed by Van Den Berg. Lacks the booklet.

Seller Inventory # 194041

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Third Hotel (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Ecco, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374168350
• ISBN 13: 9780374168353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

"[A] future cult classic." ―The New York Times Book Review

"There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." ―The Washington Post

Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Electric Literature and Lit Hub. An August 2018 IndieNext Selection. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, Refinery29, Bustle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveler, Southern Living, Lit Hub, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.

Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers.

About the Author

Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, which was named one the ten best fiction books of 2020 by TIME, and the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and named a best book of 2018 by more than a dozen publications. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award and a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.