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The Little Hotel
de Christina Stead
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0207955301
- ISBN 13
- 9780207955303
- Librería
-
Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
UK: Angus and Robertson (UK) Ltd, 1973 197 pages. There is a little foxing around the edges, and the previous owner's name is on the first page. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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El Nov 5 2016, CloggieDownunder dijo:
3.5 stars
The Little Hotel is the tenth novel published by Australian author, Christina Stead. This edition is published under the Text Classics banner and sports a gorgeous colourful cover by the talented W H Chong, as well as an introduction by poet and author, Lisa Gorton. While it was not published until 1973, Stead began writing it, or some version of it, in the early 1950s, based on her diaries of her time in Europe with her partner, communist sympathiser, William Blake, in the fifties.
Mme Selda Bonnard runs Hotel Swiss-Touring with her husband, Roger and their multi-cultural staff. Their guests are equally diverse, and Selda's observations about them and of their interactions form the bulk of this novel. It's just a few years after the end of World War Two, and Swiss-Touring is a cheap lake-shore hotel that caters to tourists as well as longer-term residents.
Against a backdrop of paranoia about the possible Russian invasion and the difficulties of retrieving funds from their native lands, the hotel's guests, past and present, are described in potted histories and anecdotes; their petty crises and domestic dramas are filled with snobbery, racism, jealousy and insecurity. Many of the guests are eccentric; one turns out to be crazy; others may even be dangerous.
Stead evokes post-war Europe with consummate ease, firmly establishing the era with both her characters' ideas, opinions and dilemmas, and the political and financial situation. This neat little volume will appeal to readers who enjoy historical fiction with a good dose of satire. Classic fiction from an award-winning Australian author.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Goulds Book Arcade
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 159155
- Título
- The Little Hotel
- Autor
- Christina Stead
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0207955301
- ISBN 13
- 9780207955303
- Editorial
- Angus and Robertson (UK) Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 1973
- Palabras clave
- [[289g JPG Late 1940s Bizarre Convincing Characters Fine Sense of Drama
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Goulds Book Arcade
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Newtown, New South Wales
Sobre Goulds Book Arcade
A local, family-run bookshop, Goulds is a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA).
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
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