– Set in "an unnamed Northern English city" which is obviously Oxford, Smith writes down the humdrum workaday lives of outside-looking-in characters in this excellent, powerful novel. Although the plot of a young girl grieving for her dead older sister, who died in a freak accident, leaves little room for anything else, such as the inner life of the homeless woman on the steps, Smith iagines them all with great compassion and tenderness, my favorite quality in a writer. Also, this novel has one of the best donw interior onologue sequences I've ever read. It heps that she chose a small English city and not London which is always gettign written about. it adds mystique to this rre find, a novel that is one of the top ten of the decade, no doubt.
Hotel World
Five people- four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. Les mer
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Set in "an unnamed Northern English city" which is obviously Oxford, Smith writes down the humdrum workaday lives of outside-looking-in characters in this excellent, powerful novel. Although the plot of a young girl grieving for her dead older sister, who died in a freak accident, leaves little room for anything else, such as the inner life of the homeless woman on the steps, Smith iagines them all with great compassion and tenderness, my favorite quality in a writer. Also, this novel has one of the best donw interior onologue sequences I've ever read. It heps that she chose a small English city and not London which is always gettign written about. it adds mystique to this rre find, a novel that is one of the top ten of the decade, no doubt.Nesta
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780140296792
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2002 and Encore Award 2002. Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2001.
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– Ali Smith's "Hotel World" is hardly a novel. More like five vignettes held together by the most tenuous of links - a common locale, the Global Hotel, where the stories take place, a perfect excuse for the use of five disembodied voices as narrators. There's the ghost of young national swimmer Sara Wilby, the chambermaid who paid for the fun of a prank with her life, her grieving sister Claire, regular bag lady Else from across the road who gets to be a non-paying guest for the night courtesy of the kindhearted receptionist Lise, and Penny, the glamourous visiting journalist. Smith's writing style is consciously experimental, almost deliberately inventive and varied, so it shouldn't surprise that some of her stories work better than others. Sort of a hit or miss.