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Hotel

By Joanna Walsh
Series: Object Lessons
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Hotel by Joanna Walsh is a part memoir, part meditation exploring the transient spaces of hotels. Amid the breakdown of her marriage, Walsh takes on the role of a hotel reviewer, reflecting on hotels as places of luxury, anonymity, and desire shaped by market realities. Through vivid explorations of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies, this beautifully designed book from the Object Lessons series reveals the complex modern phenomenon of hotels as sites of gathering and alienation.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary memoir, cultural critique, and those fascinated by the psychology and sociology of everyday spaces. Fans of literary essays and meditative, intellectual works will find this book especially rewarding.

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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, Hotel 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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Financial Times praises Walsh's writing for its intellectual rigour and bold, experimental form, calling it a great success in capturing a modern malaise. The New Statesman highlights its sly humour and imaginative shifts, with Marina Benjamin expressing a strong affection for the book. The Paris Review notes its sharp meditation on desire and alienation, and Publishers Weekly calls it evocative and affecting. Author Deborah Levy describes Hotel as a dazzling tour de force of embodied ideas.

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ISBN: 9781628924732

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 164.0mm

Weight: 160g

Pages: 176

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Education & Reference Joanna Walsh Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Object Lessons

About the Author

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.

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