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English
Bloomsbury Publishing
05 November 2015
Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a

job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed

as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy…hotels

are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires

are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and

part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways,

and lobbies—the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of

gathering and alienation, hotels.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 164mm,  Width: 122mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9781628924732
ISBN 10:   162892473X
Series:   Object Lessons
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   badaude.typepad.com

Joanna Walsh is a writer based in England. Her work has been published by Granta, Dalkey (Best European Fiction 2015), Salt (Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015), Tate, and others. Her books include Fractals (2013), and Vertigo (The Dorothy Project, 2015). She reviews for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The National (UAE). She is fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine, and runs #readwomen, described by the New York Times as a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers. She is also an illustrator.

Reviews for Hotel

Subtle and intriguing, this small book is an adventure in form. Part meditation on hotels, it mingles autobiography and reflections on home, secrets, and partings. Freud, Dora, Heidegger, and the Marx Brothers all have their moments on its small, intensely evocative stage. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Trials of Passion Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers. Hotel is a dazzling tour de force of embodied ideas. Deborah Levy, author of Black Vodka


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