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Hotel World

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BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • 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. 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anchor; First Edition (January 15, 2002)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385722109


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 00


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.18 x 0.54 x 7.95 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #813,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #8,358 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #17,197 in Contemporary Women Fiction #38,523 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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