The Little Hotel

Christina Stead, Lisa Gorton

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English

Text Publishing Company
03 October 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors.

After the Second World War, bizarre characters from across the ruined continent have gathered at the 'fourth-rate' Hotel Swiss-Touring by Lake Geneva. Some are residents, while other guests have come for the season. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of the little hotel, their eccentricities and their desperation-their jealousies and vindictiveness-are all too apparent.

First published in 1973, shortly before Christina Stead's return to Australia, The Little Hotel is a sharp, witty satire of changing lives in postwar Europe.

By: Christina Stead
Introduction by: Lisa Gorton
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9781925355734
ISBN 10: 192535573X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Little Hotel

'One of Australia's greatest novelists puts together...a crew as sad, funny and perverse as any ever gathered.' Time 'Stead is of that category of fiction writer who restores to us the entire world, in its infinite complexity and inexorable bitterness, and never asks if the reader wishes to be so furiously enlightened and instructed, but takes it for granted that this is the function of fiction.' -- Angela Carter London Review of Books 'I cannot see how anyone can deny Miss Stead's position as the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf.' New Yorker