Hotel
By: Joanna Walsh
Series: Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781628924732
Subjects: Miscellanea; Travel; Popular works; Evaluation; Hotels
Description: 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, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies--the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: part one. Hotel haunting. Hotel haunting; title: part two. Fragments from a hysterical suitcase. Hotel Freud; title: Marriage postcards; title: Hometel; title: Hotel diary; title: In a German pension; title: Hotel Marx (Bros.); title: The talking cure; title: Hotel Marx; title: Postcards from 26 hotels.