Hotel World was the winner of the Encore Award 2002 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for fiction in 2001. Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Hotel World takes us through a night in the life of five people's very different worlds. It's luxurious for some, but a long drop for others. Cash or credit? Ali Smith's innovative and extraordinary new novel checks us in to the smooth plush world of the Global. But is it really the kind of place you want to spend the rest of your life in? Playful, defiant, richly inventive, Hotel World is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration, an alchemy of opposite worlds colliding to make a modern parable of connection and indifference, and, in the end, a defence of love. Forget room service. This is a life-affirming book about death, a death-affirming book about life. Check-out is at noon.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140296792
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 16/05/2002
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Ali Smith
Ali Smith (Inverness, 1964). Tuvo una madre irlandesa, un padre inglés y una educación escocesa (hasta que comenzó su doctorado en Newnham College, Cambridge). A los veinte años, después de que un debilitante ataque de síndrome de fatiga crónica descarriló su carrera académica, comenzó a escribir. Ahora, autora de ocho novelas y seis colecciones de cuentos, crea lo que podría llamarse ficción experimental, pero con un estilo fácil, agradable y de emocionante lectura. Escribe en The Guardian, The Scotsman y el Times Library Supplement. Actualmente vive en Cambridge. Es la autora de Free Love, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World y el Cuarteto estacional