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Original Title:	Hotel World
ISBN:	0140296794 (ISBN13: 9780140296792)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	England
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2001), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2001), RSL Encore Award (2002)

Hotel World

Ali Smith

Paperback | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 4980 Users | 472 Reviews

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Title	:	Hotel World
Author	:	Ali Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	April 25th 2002 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published April 25th 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. LGBT. Literary Fiction. Short Stories

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Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19-year-old chambermaid who has recently died at the hotel; her bereaved sister, Clare, who visits the scene of Sara's death; Penny, an advertising copywriter who is staying in the room opposite; Lise, the Global's depressed receptionist; and the homeless Else who begs on the street outside. Smith's ambitious prose explores all facets of language and its uses. Sara takes us through the moment of her exit from the world and beyond; in her desperate, fading grip on words and senses she gropes to impart the meaning of her death in what she terms "the lift for dishes"--then comes a flash of clarity: "That's the name for it, the name for it; that's it; dumb waiter dumb waiter dumb waiter." Blended with hers are other voices: Penny's bland journalese and Else's obsession with metaphysical poetry.

Hotel World is not an easy read: disturbing and witty by turns, with its stream-of-consciousness narrators reminiscent of Virgina Woolf's The Waves, its deceptively rambling language is underpinned by a formal construction. Exploring the "big themes" of love, death and millennial capitalism, it takes as its starting point Muriel Spark's Momento Mori ("Remember you must die") and counteracts this axiom with a resolute "Remember you must live". Ali Smith's novel is a daring, compelling, and frankly spooky read. --Catherine Taylor

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This is the fourth book by Ali Smith Ive read - which is interesting because if theres a number Smith likes, its the number four - her books are sometimes divided into four sections and a couple have titles containing four words - How to Be Both, There But for the.This book has four female characters, Else, Lisa, Penny and Claire. Each character has her own section which is written as an interior monologue. Each section is connected directly or indirectly to the hotel where a fifth character

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 didnt 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, as Ali Smiths stories often are, by different characters in alternating sections, the language and narrative structure of the book are creative, sometimes experimental, which is also in keeping with

The plus side is that its probably my favorite book that's even been on the Booker Prize short list. The bad side is that's not saying much.Let me just start with 31 pages of unpunctuated stream of conscience writing. I was actually going along all right until I hit that character's chapter. I lasted three pages and skipped to the end. If I wanted to read something that was supposed to just alter my emotions, I'd read poetry. Just tell me the frickin story.Then the last chapter was this nebulous

A character in Hotel World talks of manipulating people with stories. She'll tell lies to them about her life, stories designed to evoke sympathy and pity: she is an orphan, she was neglected by her parents, she was sexually abused by a family friend. The stories are tearjerkers, tropes designed to pull the heartstrings. Someone tells you a story like that and, unless you have no heart, you have to say, "Oh my god! How horrible for you!" Well, my problem with Hotel World was that it felt exactly

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 Joyce. And here's Virginia Woolf. A soupcon of B S Johnson, and - yes ma'am - a nod to Donald Barthelme. Ali Smith drags in some heavy comparisons, thereby, and doesn't do herself any favours. This

Bought this at the Strand on my heartbreak tour of NYC 2002. I enjoyed the fluid presence, the floating questions of motive, most of which were left unanswered. There is something spectral about these damaged souls. While walking in London eight months later, I found myself glimpsing those souls' reflections.

https://twitter.com/vivliovision"Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in."Worstward HoAli Smith knows how to make her very own wounds blossom. Her prose is strong, at moments heartbreakingly funny, and allusive. The main character of "Hotel World" is a haunting spectre; a broken voice with a story; a cluster of faint memories of a past life, of a past love, which come to the surface only to be forgotten one by one; a posthuman