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Endless
associations
Hotel
World is a dizzying stream of consciousness charting 5 lives interlocked
by a comman theme - The Global Hotel.
As
the cover states: "Five People: four are living, three are
strangers, two are sisters. One is dead".
It's
a clever cryptic to tease you to part the covers.
Hotel
World is at times a difficult read, its language spinning off in
seemingly endless associations.
But
the challange and the depths reached worthwhile as the detail unfolds
of the thoughts, wills and wishes of the characters emerge.
The
musings are compelling and unusual, especially that of the 'one
dead'.
Although
there is more than a little autobiographical slant to Ali Smith's
twist on the infamous female five of this tale, it allows you graciously
to either take it or leave it.
The
female if not the feminine abounds in this book, to the almost superfluous
exclusion of all that is male, although again, this aspect does
not force itself on the reader and is only evident as an afterthought
Commendation
Hotel
World is a good train/plane book.
It
will send you spiraling into it's world, eating up your minutes
and miles with it's shifting viewpoints and depositing you at your
destination a little wider eyed.
Reviewer:
Jane Huddart
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