Hotel World
This story brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel. The author traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.
This story brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel. The author traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.
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Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN:
9780241141090 (0241141095)
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Queer
I liked it, but not nearly as good as most of her other books.
What a start! Ali Smith’s Hotel World explodes with the buzz of language and never relents. Told as stream-of-consciousness vignettes focussing on a girl who died falling down a hotel dumbwaiter, “Hotel World” owes much to the Modernist masterpieces of Joyce and Woolf, but doesn’t feel at all dated ...
Woooooooo- hooooooo is how this book starts.The opening depicts the thoughts of nineteen-year-old chambermaid Sara Wilby as she plummets - and after she has plummeted - four floors down to her death inside a dumb waiter at the hotel where she works. The events of that fateful night are presented fro...
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