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Ludwig Bemelmans Hotel Bemelmans.(Book Review)
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Ludwig Bemelmans Hotel Bemelmans. Overlook, 302 pages, $24.95
Lugwig Bemelmans is best known for his Madeline books. But he is also a dazzling writer on the demimonde. Bemelmans was the sort of expatriate who never let reality get in the way of imagination. As a youth he left his home in the Tyrol (after shooting a waiter), boarded a ship for America (believing it full of Indians), and landed in various jobs at the old New York Ritz--the thinly veiled "Hotel Splendide" of these stories. Overlook ...
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