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Hotel World (Paperback)

By: Ali Smith (Author)

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"Where British reviewers see ambition, subtlety and wild imagination, all I can detect are leaden whimsy and mechanistic storytelling....With its flabby language, lame jokes and whiny pretension, HOTEL WORLD will send most aficionados of British literary wit and imaginative subtlety scampering straight to the checkout desk."

"[A] visceral piece of work, as affecting a novel as any that has been published for a long time. Experimentation that would be merely pretentious in a lesser writer...works here almost magically....Startlingly accomplished and, for all her literary tricks, a smooth and straight storyteller, Smith has proved to be one of Britain's major talents."

"The pieces do finally come together, yet all remains oddly mechanical, no matter how many words and pages accumulate, and accumulate, and accumulate....Long riffs on a theme, presented like a puzzle."

Publisher's note

Hotel World marks the American debut of an audaciously talented new novelist.

Sara Wilby, a hotel chambermaid, falls to her death in the dumbwaiter yet lingers in the world to remember things she never knew. Lise, the disgruntled receptionist, invites the homeless Else into the hotel, and together with Penny, a distracted journalist, they help Clare, the dead girl’s distraught sister, complete an errand she doesn’t fully understand. Five people: somehow they connect, and Ali Smith makes of their very different fates this playful, defiant, richly inventive, and wonderfully life- and love-affirming novel.

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HOTEL WORLD, which was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001, is about Sarah Wilby, a chambermaid in a hotel, who dies in an accident on the job. Various characters who either knew her, were related to her, or witnessed the event, contribute short chapters about Sarah's life and death.

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