Hotel World (2001 Shortlisted For Booker & Orange Prize)
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Description:
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, t...
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, t...
Description:
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe...
Prizes:
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2002.
Winner of Encore Award 2002.
Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2001.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001.
Author Biography:
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, FREE LOVE, won the Saltire First Book Award. LIKE was published in 1997 and OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES in 1999. Ali Smith also writes for the Scotsman and the TLS.
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe...
Prizes:
Winner of Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2002.
Winner of Encore Award 2002.
Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2001.
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 2001.
Author Biography:
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her first book, FREE LOVE, won the Saltire First Book Award. LIKE was published in 1997 and OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES in 1999. Ali Smith also writes for the Scotsman and the TLS.
| Autor | Smith, Ali |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2002 |
| Kirjastus | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 256 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 198 |
| Keel | English |
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