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Dreaming Stephen Crane.(Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel)(Book review)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20071101
Author:Anderson, Eric Karl

Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel

by Edmund White

Ecco. 240 pages, $23.95

AUTHOR STEPHEN CRANE is nearing the end of his short life, and his wife Cora is on a fruitless mission to save him by consulting different medical specialists in several countries, to which she travels with their faithful "sad-eyed" dog Spongie in tow. Though Crane is only 28 years old, he realizes that he won't have much longer to live and worries that he made a grave mistake by destroying the pages of a book he once started about a boy-prostitute in New York City. He recounts how he once met ...

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