
A Small Hotel
Robert Olen Butler(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published on 10. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8021-4583-3 (ISBN)
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winner Butler's books have looked at diverse topics like hell, extraterrestrials, and Vietnam. This acclaimed 12th novel, chosen for "O Magazine"'s Summer Reading List, offers an intimate chronicle of a disintegrating relationship over the course of 20 years.
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 NMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 189 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
243 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-4583-3 (9780802145833)
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ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the author of 11 novels and three story collections. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 and a National Magazine Award in 2001 and 2005, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant, as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.