The White Hotel
1981 novel by D. M. Thomas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with White Hotel (film).
The White Hotel is a novel written by the British (Cornish)[1] poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas. It was first published in January 1981 by Gollancz in the United Kingdom and in March 1981 by The Viking Press in the United States.
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Author | D. M. Thomas |
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Country | Great Britain |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | January 1981 |
Media type | |
Pages | 240 pp |
ISBN | 0-575-02889-0 |
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The narrative is told principally in the form of an erotic journal and letters between the female narrator and a fictionalized Sigmund Freud as well as Freud's case history analysis of the narrator.
The White Hotel won the 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the 1981 Cheltenham Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the same year's Booker Prize.