THE HOTEL ROOM / Agnar Mykle, 1963 HCDJ 1st Edition, E.P. Dutton, VG plus

Description: The Hotel Room : A Novel by Agnar Mykle New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. (1963) First U.S. Edition, First Printing Hardcover, 279 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. First Printing of the First U.S. Edition in original unclipped dust jacket with original $4.50 price intact. Clean green cloth boards with black spine stamping. Binding is tight and strong with a bit of spine lean (see photos); tiny hole to top center of spine (see photos); text block is unmarked and immaculate. Pages and edges are clean and bright with no foxing. Clean end papers - no names, writing, bookplates, or marks. Pages are clean and bright with no folds, stains, tears, odors, internal foxing, or markings. Clean dust jacket is unclipped and complete and Very Good. Mild darkening to jacket spine and wear at spine edges & corners, see photos. Enclosed in a removable dust jacket protector. NOT ex-library, NOT a remainder. Just say NO to stock photos! Photos (including scans of the cover) are of the actual book you will receive. Insist on seeing what you are paying for. Book summary: The facts, in this strange Norwegian novel, are mostly hidden. Ash, a married man, is on trial for brutally attacking a hotel porter who broke in while Ash was forcibly seducing a woman in a hotel room. Ash has recently been in trouble elsewhere, in another hotel where he raped a 17 year old girl. Yet the book, in vague but furious tirades against prudery, authority, etc. and in defense of ""The Norwegian soul"" and ""Man's freedom"", apparently attempts to prove that Ash was merely upholding his right to privacy. Through this web of justification, Ash appears dimly and perhaps inadvertently as a vengeful, frustrated man, who conceives of love as rape and whose violent loathing of ""Peeping Toms"" may be a fear of his own guilt-ridden conscience. This does not seem to be the author's overt intention. Ash is glorified, grinds the opposition into scorn in his final defense, and is acquitted. This unpleasant novel is a rather remarkable defense and revelation of a sick mind- and most troubling in that its intended viewpoint is never clearly stated. Some may remember the earlier (1960) Lasso Round the Moon, also a difficult book. --Kirkus, May 1, 1963

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