''Hotel'' is a 2015 book by British writer, illustrator and critic Joanna Walsh. The book is in the Bloomsbury series ''

Object Lessons Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected ...

Synopsis

The book is an instalment in the Bloomsbury Academic series ''Object Lessons''. The series is intended to discuss the hidden lives ordinary things. ''Hotel'' examines the luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy of hotels; places where "desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace"

Reception

In the ''

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'' Melissa Harrison praised ''Hotel'' as being "densely patterned, deeply personal" and wrote that "Walsh's writing has intellectual rigour and bags of formal bravery" and also stated that the book "is a boldly intellectual work that repays careful reading" In the ''

New Statesman The ''New Statesman'' is a British political and cultural magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members ...

'' Marina Benjamin wrote that "I loved Hotel and would read it again for the pleasure of its playful linguistic slips (not all of them Freudian) and jokes." and praised the ''Hotel'' as "slyly humorous and clever"

References

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