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Sinossi
Intorno al lussuoso Global Hotel si incrociano i destini di cinque donne: Sara, una giovane cameriera morta accidentalmente all'interno dell'albergo; Lise, una receptionist dall'inattesa generosità; Else, una mendicante che per poche ore viene ammessa in quel mondo di comfort e privilegio; Penny, una giornalista più smaniosa di ricevere attenzione che in grado di darne; e Clare, la sorella di Sara, che cerca di fare i conti con la sua scomparsa. Cinque personaggi femminili ciascuno con la propria voce, cinque appassionanti flussi di coscienza da cui ricostruiamo man mano una vicenda fatta di mondi diversi che si toccano.
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- Pagine: 195
- Data di uscita: 17-11-2016
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Another astonishing piece of work from Ms. Smith. Is there anything this writer can’t do? I have domestic duties and a rumbling stomach at present, so this review might be brief, and gushing. But here goes. I love Ali Smith. I love Ali Smith because she moves me, and being a man, I’m not supposed to Leggi tutto
Ali Smith gets a lot of love from the reviewers (the real ones, not us hobbledehoys lurking under our Goodreads rock). She likes to be experimental. Or she does in this novel, anyway. Unfortunately "experimental" techniques provoke the train-spotter in me. Oh, I say to myself, there's some James Joy Leggi tutto
The fall occurs at dawn. Albert Camus If I had not read MJ’s excellent review ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... ), I would never have purchased this book as firstly, I had never heard of the author and secondly, this didn’t sound like my type of book at all. That’s the “problem” with Goodre Leggi tutto
Second time (read) is the charm as they say. After having loved Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy and having chosen this specific novel for not one but two upcoming assignments, I thought it was better that I reread to both further my analysis and see if I can enjoy it more now that I have grasped Smith's
Perhaps the most interesting about this, Smith's second full-fledged novel, is how it was viewed as terribly avant-garde when it first came out, but now seems borderline mainstream. It's still a wild, trippy ride, but Smith's engaging wordplay and her unerring narrative pyrotechnics are perhaps more Leggi tutto
Hotel World was quite the experience. Ali Smith certainly has talent asking with her unique writing style and a recognizable author's voice. The synopsis for it actually gives great insight into the core of this novel: "Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, se Leggi tutto
While I appreciate Ali Smith's experimentation, I'm not a fan of the quotidian rhythm of her narrators. Whether they are waiting at the airport, or sitting around on their home computer, or flopping on the bed of a sleazy hotel room, I find myself waiting for something interesting to happen far too
2.5 stars Because it was October, I had campaigned for my book club to read something scary, but I was overruled and we ended up with Hotel World as the selection. I didn’t get my first choice, which would have been Frankenstein , although I did get a ghost story, but a sad one, not a scary one. Told Leggi tutto
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