Acknowledgments
I’m extremely grateful to everyone who helped with the writing and revision of The Hotel Neversink: Elizabeth Watkins Price, J. Robert Lennon, Brad Rudin, Lauren Schenkman, Patricia Price, Bill Price, Brownie Watkins, and Ben Felton. Thank you, as well, to Daniel Wallace, Chris Bachelder, Lydia Kiesling, Ling Ma, Michael Goldsmith, and B. T. Coleman, and to the great team at Tin House Books: Diane Chonette, Nanci McCloskey, Molly Templeton, Elizabeth DeMeo, and Yashwina Canter. And I feel honored to work with both Masie Cochran and Samantha Shea, without whom this book would certainly not exist.
“Thoroughly absorbing.. . . Spanning almost a century, The Hotel Neversink is a multilayered tale of family, fortune, and fate that grows more eerily compelling with every passing page.”
—LING MA, author of Severance
“A gripping, atmospheric, heartbreaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King’s Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life.”
—LYDIA KIESLING, author of The Golden State
“The Hotel Neversink is an astounding literary feat—a murder mystery, a ghost story, a century-spanning family history, and a stand-up routine all in one, with dramatic variety to rival any Catskills floor show. Adam O’Fallon Price writes with the blackly comic energy of Philip Roth or Lorrie Moore, packing ten novels’ worth of narrative into this compact knish of a book. I wolfed it down in a couple of bites.”
—J. ROBERT LENNON, author of Broken River
“Like a heyday hotel, this vibrant novel teems with lives, stories, and dark secrets. With its large cast of characters, chilling crime, and haunted locale, The Hotel Neversink is a compelling and spooky mystery, but readers will also find it to be a perceptive and exceptionally well-written novel about the transmission of family trauma.”
—CHRIS BACHELDER, author of The Throwback Special
“Adam O’Fallon Price’s The Hotel Neversink, like its namesake, contains many rooms: behind this door, a tragic family saga; behind that one, a comic love story. And behind it all, a mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end. Book your stay soon.”
—DANIEL WALLACE, author of Extraordinary Adventures
PHOTO: ELIZABETH WATKINS PRICE
ADAM O’FALLON PRICE’s short fiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, the Paris Review, VICE, and elsewhere. His essays and reviews appear in venues such as Electric Literature, the Paris Review Daily, Ploughshares, and The Millions, where he is a staff writer. His first novel, The Grand Tour, was published in 2016. He lives in Carrboro, NC.
Copyright © 2019 Adam O’Fallon Price
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, contact Tin House Books, 2617 NW Thurman St., Portland, OR 97210.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names:
Price, Adam O’Fallon, author.
Title: The hotel neversink / Adam O’Fallon Price.
Description: First U.S. edition. | Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019005818 | ISBN 9781947793347 (pbk.) |
ISBN 9781947793354 (ebook)
Subjects: | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3616.R497 H68 2019 | DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019005818
First US Edition 2019
Printed in the USA
Interior design by Diane Chonette
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