In this eerie-funny book, a nameless young man tries to better his life after everything he owns is destroyed in a brutal mud-slide. He drifts into the world of hotel work, and discovers its mysteries and peculiarities in this pitchblende of roman a clef and hard-boiled paperback noir. Suffused with dark humor and shot through with trenchant detail about the shortcomings of 21st-century life, HELL IS A LONELY PLACE is a Jim Thompson novel for the new millenium... kinda-sorta.
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