![]() ![]() Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (Vintage, $14). ![]() Krull’s lack of identity makes him the perfect hotel dweller, as he assumes and casts off mask after mask. The total hotel novel, portraying every facet of hotel life from lowly lift boy to royal guest. ![]() When the place comes, literally, to life, it seems terrifyingly natural that it should.Ĭonfessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man by Thomas Mann (Vintage, $17). A hotel is about as characterful as a building can get, and the Overlook Hotel is an exceptionally strong character. The Shining by Stephen King (Pocket, $15). Fired by a sense of social injustice and homelessness, Roth makes the hotel stand for everything that is wrong in a decaying post–World War I Europe. Roth’s brilliant short novel has been somewhat overlooked. Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth (Overlook, $15). ![]()
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