Exceptionally light, it's an easy to read, simply written novel that just captures your attention! Being romanian myself, I was able to connect to some things in the book (obviously), and I was pleased to see that everything was correctly written about. I was especially amazed by the refference to g...
Sve ja to razumem, i grotesku, i Rableovu veličinu i to što ga moj profesor opšte književnsti gotivi, al' ovde ima previše prdeža, govana i povraćke da bi mi se knjiga svidela. Neću da čitam više, petoknjižje štroke i smrada mi u životu ne treba.
At the front of this book, Paul Bailey expresses his "deep and abiding gratitude" to the Royal Literary Fund. He had had to turn to them for financial support in 2009 when publishers showed no interest in publishing it, despite his belief that it was as good as anything he had done since Gabriel's L...
At a slim 178 pages, a poignant but unsentimental story about the vulnerabilities of age, set at the Claremont Hotel, whose elderly residents say of it, "we aren't allowed to die here." In its quiet way, absolutely gutting.
It is hard for me to translate my experience of this book to words. It's not that my feelings are ambiguous, or even that I can't find the right words; my problem is that it created such an emotional and intellectual response from me, that I'm finding it difficult to know where to start, or how much...
Mrs. Palfrey checks into the Claremont Hotel. Her next stopwill be a nursing home and everyone knows what is after that. Mrs.Palfrey has had a small life, with few friends, but while she is at theClaremont, she makes some of the best friends of her life, including afriendship with a young man.
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