America's Magic Mountain

Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book, though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centres. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves from addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognisable as our own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/01/2004
ISBN: 9781564783691
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.06w x 0.72d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2004 pg. 938
Publishers Weekly 10/18/2004 pg. 47
New York Times 12/26/2004 pg. 17
Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 72