| AN ENTHRALLING CONTEMPORARY VERSION OF THOMAS MANN S THE 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. |
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