America's Magic Mountain

by Curtis White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564783693
• ISBN13: 9781564783691
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher