The Hotel Neversink

De: Adam O'Fallon Price

Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen

Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears.

This mysterious vanishing - and the ones that follow - will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter, Jeanie, sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family's heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer's identity.

Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members - a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others - The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O'Fallon-Price details one man's struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.

©2019 Adam O'Fallon Price (P)2020 Tantor

Wonderful Novel!

This novel is beautifully written. I loved the interplay of the generations of this family-owned hotel and the suspense weaving throughout those generations. It kept me guessing until the very end.

Fantastic!

Intimate stories involving complex and interesting characters with a connection to the Neversink Hotel that come together to solve the strange and eerie cases of decades of missing children. Great narration. Loved it!

A Depressing Book, Depressingly Read

This book contains a mystery regarding a boy who goes missing at the hotel, but by the time I got to the last half hour and the revelation of the solution, I just wanted the story to be over. The narrative starts with a building owner who kills himself and ends with Alice, who contemplates suicide but instead writes a book about her family's hotel and darkest secret. There are no heroes and nothing noble here. Unless you enjoy being depressed, I can't recommend that you spend 10 hours of your life listening to this sad story. It's hard to fault Steven Jay Cohen's narration - it's duly depressing but couldn't have been otherwise.