{"product_id":"hotel-world-by-ali-smith","title":"'Hotel World' by Ali Smith","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"539\" data-start=\"29\"\u003eA brilliant, formally restless novel about a death in a hotel and the lives that keep moving around its absence.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"539\" data-start=\"29\"\u003eA young chambermaid falls down a dumbwaiter shaft; from there the book fractures into multiple voices, times, griefs, hauntings, desires, and states of consciousness. The hotel becomes less a setting than a machine for passing lives through one another: guests, staff, strangers, the dead, the barely noticed, the people whose labour keeps everything appearing smooth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"982\" data-start=\"541\"\u003eIt’s one of Smith’s great early works: playful, sad, strange, and structurally alive without feeling like a trick. The book moves between ghost story, social novel, linguistic experiment, queer desire, grief comedy, and critique of service-world invisibility. Very good for readers of Jeanette Winterson, A. L. Kennedy, Deborah Levy, Virginia Woolf, Muriel Spark, and novels that understand that form is not decoration but a way of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1307\" data-start=\"984\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin paperback edition, published in Penguin Books in 2002. First published by Hamish Hamilton in 2001. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, as noted on the cover. Good second-hand condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45685400174675,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_57.png?v=1781079657","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/hotel-world-by-ali-smith","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}