America’s Magic Mountain Irish LiteratureBy Curtis White ISBN: 9781564783691 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,
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the lives of the lost and damaged souls it creates
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“Long relegated to the shelf of ‘immature works
Eric Kurtzke is a literary translator and assistant editor at Dalkey Archive Press
he describes how religion functions in the modern world
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