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The Little Hotel

The Little Hotel

Christina Stead
2.9/5 ( ratings)
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'If you knew what happens in the hotel every day! Not a day passes but something happens.' With these words the shrewd young proprietress of a modest Swiss hotel opens her account of the remarkable day-to-day events in her establishment. Little escapes here eye, still less her ear; for she is a good listener, and 'people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors'.
The period is the late 1940s. Many of Mme Bonnard's patrons are on the run from some real or imagined horror: from the Russians, from the dreaded Labour Government, from a husband bent on murder, from loneliness or madness...
...
A bizarre assembly of characters is assembled by Christina Stead in The Little Hotel and their frictions, alliances, intrigues and animosities ...are charted with loving care and a fine sense of drama.
Language
English
Pages
191
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Release
April 01, 1975
ISBN
0030132266
ISBN 13
9780030132261

The Little Hotel

Christina Stead
2.9/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
'If you knew what happens in the hotel every day! Not a day passes but something happens.' With these words the shrewd young proprietress of a modest Swiss hotel opens her account of the remarkable day-to-day events in her establishment. Little escapes here eye, still less her ear; for she is a good listener, and 'people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors'.
The period is the late 1940s. Many of Mme Bonnard's patrons are on the run from some real or imagined horror: from the Russians, from the dreaded Labour Government, from a husband bent on murder, from loneliness or madness...
...
A bizarre assembly of characters is assembled by Christina Stead in The Little Hotel and their frictions, alliances, intrigues and animosities ...are charted with loving care and a fine sense of drama.
Language
English
Pages
191
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Release
April 01, 1975
ISBN
0030132266
ISBN 13
9780030132261

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