The Hotel Neversink
Book - 2019
Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing-and the ones that follow-will brand the lives of three generations over the course of this novel. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family's heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer's identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members-a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others-The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O'Fallon Price details one man's struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.
Publisher:
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019
Edition:
First U.S. edition
ISBN:
9781947793347
1947793349
1947793349
Characteristics:
279 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number:
PRICE, A


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Add a CommentThis book is not nearly as creepy as it should be. But what it lacks for in chills it more than makes up for in gripping family drama told by 15 narrators over the span of a 100 years that keep the pages turning (albeit slowly at times).