Hotel Honolulu

In this wickedly satiric romp Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel''s narrator a down-on-his-luck writer escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach. Honeymooners vacationers wanderers mythomaniacs soldiers and families all check in to the hotel. Like the Canterbury pilgrims every guest has come in search of something -- sun love happiness objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story. By turns hilarious ribald tender and tragic HOTEL HONOLULU offers a unique glimpse of the psychological landscape of an American paradise.