The Grass Hotel

Name: The Grass Hotel
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781922458353
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By Craig Sherborne

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The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne is a poignant exploration of memory and identity, following a son who returns to his terminally ill mother's makeshift care home, dubbed "the Grass Hotel." As he grapples with her fading memories and their shared history, the novel delicately navigates themes of loss, love, and reconciliation amidst the backdrop of familial duty and the past's lingering shadows.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate deeply moving stories that explore themes of memory, love, and loss. It's a poignant narrative that reflects on the intricacies of familial relationships and is beautifully written with emotional depth, offering a thoughtful and touching journey into the human condition.

Short and sharp, savage yet tender, and written with a poet’s touch—a bittersweet portrait of mother and son by an award-winning Australian novelist

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Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.

Are you listening to me?

Of course you’re listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, rye-spindly hay.

Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel, a man tends to his beloved horses, Sock and Boy. The voice of his mother—accusatory, fragmenting from dementia—haunts his every move, an excoriating reminder of his failures in the world of people.

The Grass Hotel is a story of damage and repair, of familial obligation and the resentments it can cause. It is also about the profound comfort that a connection with animals can offer.

With its extraordinary use of language, Craig Sherborne’s novel is by turns savage and tender, raw and poetic: a small masterpiece.

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The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne is lauded for its poignant exploration of a mother-son relationship, delivering an unsparing yet humane portrait. Sherborne's mastery of narrative and poetic elements crafts a vivid depiction of familial power dynamics and emotional turbulence, combining natural lyricism with darker themes of resentment and disappointment. The prose is celebrated for its emotional power, evoking both beauty and melancholy.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922458353

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Craig Sherborne’s memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for the Queensland and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The follow-up, Muck, won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction. Sherborne’s debut novel, The Amateur Science of Love, won the Best Writing Prize in the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Awards. He has also written two volumes of poetry, and his journalism and poetry have appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals and anthologies. His two most recent novels are Tree Palace, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and Off the Record.

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