· No doubt there is something strange about the Avignon hotel in which Eimear McBride’s third novel opens. The book is called Strange Hotel after all. But is there something familiar too? Have we, like the narrator, been here before? · The following is excerpted from Eimear McBride's new novel, Strange Hotel. McBride is the author of the novels The Lesser Bohemians, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Strange Hotel By Eimear McBride Faber Faber pp £ order from our bookshop ‘The present is more and more the day of the hotel,’ declared Henry James in The American Scene. It still is. We are all hoteliers now, at least potentially. The private two-bed flat competes for custom with James’s Waldorf-Astoria, and the ‘hotel spirit Author: James Purdon.
Eimear McBride's latest novel, Strange Hotel explores loss, love and the nature of home through the intimate rendering of a woman's mind laid bare in a series of hotel rooms scattered around the. The nameless protagonist of Eimear McBride 's Strange Hotel - whose story is revealed, apart from a brief passage near the end of the book, in the close third person - is here caught going. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride As someone who has spent solitary nights in hotels, thrilled to be on my own and away from responsibility yet at the same time guilty for leaving my family, I was immediately drawn in by the book jacket description of Eimear McBride's new novel, Strange Hotel.
“In Strange Hotel, a nameless woman’s voyage through a string of hotel rooms gradually reveals an inner world of striking tumult and depth, as her meditations draw her, and us, deeper into the unsettled tides of her own past. Eimear McBride has created a powerfully hypnotic novel of consciousness, one that traces the intricacies of thought and memory in prose so thrilling, so dagger-sharp, it makes the heart race.”. Eimear McBride's latest novel, Strange Hotel explores loss, love and the nature of home through the intimate rendering of a woman's mind laid bare in a series of hotel rooms scattered around the. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride is a novel comprised entirely of a woman's internal dialogue, on five different occasions, in five different hotel rooms, in five different cities. The extent to which a reader will like this book likely depends on how much that reader likes bringing to a novel versus how much they want the novel to have everything included and the reader just has to read and take it in.
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