Commercial Hotel
Publisher: Victoria University of Wellington Press
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781776564217
Subjects: Oceania, history
Description: "Combining reportage and memoir, 'The commercial hotel' is a sharp-eyed, poignant yet often hilarious tour of Aotearoa: a place in which Arcoroc mugs and dog-eared political biographies are as much a part of the scenery as the hills we tramp through ill-equipped. We encounter Elvis impersonators, the eccentric French horn player and adventurer Bernard Shapiro, Norman Kirk balancing timber on his handlebars while cycling to his building site, and Summers's grandmother: the only woman imprisoned in New Zealand for protesting World War Two. And we meet the ghosts who haunt our loneliest spaces"--Publisher's website.