The Swank Hotel
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The Swank Hotel
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
The Swank Hotel written by Lucy Corin and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Fiction categories.
A stunningly ambitious, prescient novel about madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdown At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible, salary-backed, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable, something impossible, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. The story that swirls around Em moves through several perspectives and voices. There is Frank, the tart-tongued, failing manager at her office; Jack, the man with whom Frank has had a love affair for decades; Em and Ad’s eccentric parents, who live in a house that is perpetually being built; and Tasio, the young man from Chiapas who works for them and falls in love with Ad. Through them Corin portrays porousness and breakdown in individuals and families, in economies and political systems, in architecture, technology, and even in language itself. The Swank Hotel is an acrobatic, unforgettable, surreal, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America.
The Hotel Dick
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Author : Axel Brand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Hotel Dick written by Axel Brand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
It's 1948. Milwaukee is a big, cold industrial town with a church on every other corner. Joe Sonntag is a lunch-bucket cop who takes the streetcar to work each day and then back home to his wife each night. In all his years as a detective, this was the strangest thing Joe Sonntag ever heard of. Spencer Tracy did it. That's what the sole witness says about the barber shop murder of a hotel detective: Spencer Tracy rushed in, pumped two bullets into him, and fled.
Last Call At The Hotel Imperial
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Author : Deborah Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Last Call At The Hotel Imperial written by Deborah Cohen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE • A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism “High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen’s all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident.”—Financial Times NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, Booklist They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s Dorothy and Red, about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis. Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.
Hotel Splendid
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Author : Marie Redonnet
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1994-09
Hotel Splendid written by Marie Redonnet and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09 with Fiction categories.
The woman who owns the once proud Hotel Splendid is burdened with the care of her sickly and selfish sisters, and is forced to battle the elements as her now-decaying hotel is about to be swallowed up by an encroaching swamp
Imperial Palace
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Author : Arnold Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-08-31
Imperial Palace written by Arnold Bennett and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with Fiction categories.
"Imperial Palace " by Arnold Bennett is a quintessential exploration of class dynamics, the intricacies of work, and the fragility of human nature. Set in the Imperial Palace hotel, the novel delves into the life of Evelyn Orcham, the manager, and his two love affairs, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the running of a luxury hotel with meticulous detail. Bennett's sharp insights into human flaws and the beauty found in the mundane make for an uncomfortable yet thought-provoking read.
One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: McSweeney's
Release Date : 2016-08-09
One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apocalypses written by Lucy Corin and has been published by McSweeney's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with Fiction categories.
Lucy Corin's "eye popping, enlightening read" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback. At the heart of Lucy Corin’s dazzling collection are one hundred apocalypses: visions of loss and destruction, vexation and crisis, revelation and revolution, sometimes only a few lines long. In these haunting and wickedly funny stories, an apocalypse might come in the form of the end of a relationship or the end of the world, but they all expose the tricky landscape of our longing for a clean slate. In three longer stories, contemporary American life is playfully, if disturbingly, distorted: the rite of passage for adolescent girls involves choosing the madman who will accompany them into adulthood; California burns to the ground while, on the east coast, life carries on; and a soldier returns home broke from war to encounter a witch who extends a dangerous offer. At once mournful and explosively energetic, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is "deeply rooted in the politics and upheaval of our times" (Lambda Literary).
Hotel Transylvania
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Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-02
Hotel Transylvania written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-02 with Fiction categories.
In Hotel Transylvania, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, the newest member of Louis XV's court, catches the eye of Madelaine de Montalia, but the young lady has attracted others as well, not all of whom mean her well. The Palace is the home of nobleman Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano, who collects the finest art and also dabbles in the black arts.
The Entire Predicament
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Author : Lucy Corin
language : en
Publisher: Tin House Books
Release Date : 2007-09-28
The Entire Predicament written by Lucy Corin and has been published by Tin House Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-28 with Fiction categories.
In this refreshing, funny, and startling collection of stories, Lucy Corin veers far from the path of staid contemporary fiction. She masterfully weaves traditional and experimental topics and techniques, creating a fictional world where people behave normally in the most extreme situations, and in bizarrely with almost no provocation at all. But thanks to her vivid, sharp prose and insightful first-person voices, even the oddest behavior is utterly believable. Unpredictable and playful, these stories transcend their apocalyptic feel to offer a vision that is clear, humane, and completely engaging.The Entire Predicamentsecures Corin’s reputation as an original, stylistically courageous voice in contemporary avant-garde fiction.
Naked Pursuit
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Author : Jill Monroe
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2016-02-01
Naked Pursuit written by Jill Monroe and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Handcuffs. A sexy stranger. What did she do last night? Med student Stella Holbrook just had the best night of her life. Meeting a hot, hunky firefighter, making out with him at the roller rink and then engaging in a whole lot of deliciously wicked behaviour in a swank hotel room. Only when she wakes up the next morning she can't remember a thing... Owen Perkins has no idea how he ended up naked in a bathtub with Stella. All he knows is that while their minds are blank, their bodies definitely remember what happened. All they have to go on are cryptic notes they left for themselves. Piece by piece, they'll uncover the truth about last night...one exquisitely sexy moment at a time!
Center Stage
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Author : Denise Grover Swank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Center Stage written by Denise Grover Swank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Chick lit categories.
Ten years ago, Magnolia Steele fled Franklin, Tennessee after an incident that left her with hazy memories and a horror of the place where she had been born and bred. Though her abrupt departure destroyed most of her treasured relationships, she vowed never to return . . . until she has no choice. When Magnolia's breakout acting role in a Broadway musical ends in disgrace, there's only one place she can go. She finds herself on her momma's porch, suitcase in hand. Drama follows Magnolia around like a long lost friend. She reluctantly agrees to help her momma's catering company at a party for a country music star, only to find herself face-to-face with a sleazy music agent from her past. After a very public spat, Magnolia not only finds him dead but herself center stage in the police's investigation. Now she must scramble to prove her innocence, relying on the help of acquaintances old and new. But the longer Magnolia stays in Franklin, the more she remembers about the big bad incident that chased her away. The past might not be finished with her yet, and what she doesn't remember could be her biggest danger.