Hotel Mamie Stover
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Set against the smoke and urgency of wartime Honolulu, Hotel Mamie Stover chronicles the audacious rise of Mamie Stover, a young woman expelled from San Francisco who reinvents herself in Hawaii's booming wartime economy, transforming from an outcast into one of the island's most powerful and wealthy figures. William Bradford Huie's novel presents a sharp, unflinching portrait of ambition, sexuality, and survival, set against the turbulent backdrop of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War, where conventional morality is turned on its head and fortune favours the bold. Huie, a celebrated American author and investigative journalist, brings his trademark unflinching realism to this tale, weaving social commentary into a gripping narrative that challenges mid-century attitudes toward gender, class, and the American Dream. Hotel Mamie Stover stands as a bold piece of post-war American fiction — a novel that dares to ask what a woman must sacrifice to claim power in a world designed to deny it to her, and whether that power, once seized, can ever truly be kept.
Author: William Bradford Huie
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Set against the smoke and urgency of wartime Honolulu, Hotel Mamie Stover chronicles the audacious rise of Mamie Stover, a young woman expelled from San Francisco who reinvents herself in Hawaii's booming wartime economy, transforming from an outcast into one of the island's most powerful and wealthy figures. William Bradford Huie's novel presents a sharp, unflinching portrait of ambition, sexuality, and survival, set against the turbulent backdrop of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War, where conventional morality is turned on its head and fortune favours the bold. Huie, a celebrated American author and investigative journalist, brings his trademark unflinching realism to this tale, weaving social commentary into a gripping narrative that challenges mid-century attitudes toward gender, class, and the American Dream. Hotel Mamie Stover stands as a bold piece of post-war American fiction — a novel that dares to ask what a woman must sacrifice to claim power in a world designed to deny it to her, and whether that power, once seized, can ever truly be kept.