Little Hotel, The
de Stead, Christina
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0030132266
- ISBN 13
- 9780030132261
- Librería
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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New York: Holt Rinehart Winston , 1975. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 191 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a small European hotel in the late 1940s a bizarre group of characters, who all seem to be on the run from some past financial, personal or political horror, come together. Record # 204153
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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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- Librería
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 204153
- Título
- Little Hotel, The
- Autor
- Stead, Christina
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 3rd pr.
- ISBN 10
- 0030132266
- ISBN 13
- 9780030132261
- Editorial
- Holt Rinehart Winston
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1975
- Palabras clave
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