A Small Hotel

Reviews / Votes

An "O Magazine" "Summer Reading List" title "Piercing . . . Bristling with insight . . . Butler's most impressive accomplishment lies in capturing the mingled emotions of anger, remorse, pain and even love that mark most divorces. . . . Honest and compassionate, Butler's exploration of a marriage's sundering is the work of a mature, reflective author."--"Star Tribune "(Minneapolis) "Intelligent, deeply moving . . . Remarkably written . . . "A Small Hotel" is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the 'best living American writer."--"The Fort Worth Star Telegram" "Skillful . . . Absorbing . . . Wise and painfully realistic . . . A novel of ideas, an interrogation of the limitations and uses of language."--"The New York Times Book Review" "[A] deliciously, unapologetically romantic novel . . . [Butler's] empathetic, precise writing flirts with melodrama but never feels hackneyed. In less skillful hands, this story would be a guilty pleasure. Instead, it's just a pleasure."--"O Magazine" "Richly observed . . . Butler's lucid writing style always conceals turbulent depths beneath a placid surface. He is, in fact, one of the boldest literary writers working today, willing to follow his imagination wherever it leads."--" Sun Sentinel "(Florida) "Intriguing . . . Intricate . . . Butler skilfully sets up expectations only to twist them, and twist them again. Words said and unsaid can change eveything in an instant."--"The Mercury News" "A sleek, erotic, and suspenseful drama about men who cannot say the word love and the women they harm . . . Butler executes a plot twist of profound proportions in this gorgeously controlled, unnerving, and beautifully revealing tale of the consequences of emotional withholding."--"Booklist" (starred review) "With mesmerizing detail, Butler excavates layers of memory and illuminates moments of both tenderness and alienation."--"The N