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Donald Michael Thomas began his writing career as a poet, and his early work was notable for the way it ranged across the heights of the fantasy worlds of science fiction and of sensuality. Thomas was a superb writer, meticulous researcher, and a genius in deceiving the reader. He skillfully wrote The White Hotel, combining prose, poem, and science fiction, to make it a believable, conceivable, and a touching piece of literature. In his novel, …

…foreshadowing, prose, poem, and fiction, as well as a brilliant, controversial, and surprising ending to the novel. In all Thomas was able to capture his readers in a web of misleading, confusing, and tangled thoughts. His ability to accurately connect factual historical events with a fictional, imaginative, and seducing plot, gives this novel its reputation as one of the best novel of the twetieth century, as well as one of the most difficult to understand.