Hotel World

Hotel WorldWoooooooo hooooooo. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.

Woooooooo-hooooooo.

Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.

Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01/15/2002
ISBN: 9780385722100
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.17w x 0.55d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2001 pg. 1449
Publishers Weekly 11/12/2001 pg. 35
Booklist 12/01/2001 pg. 631
American Spectator 01/01/2002 pg. 139
Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 176
Entertainment Weekly 01/25/2002 pg. 99
New York Times 02/03/2002 pg. 20