The Commercial Hotel
Published on 15. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-77656-421-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Combining reportage and memoir, 'The commercial hotel' is a sharp-eyed, poignant yet often hilarious tour of Aotearoa: a place in which Arcoroc mugs and dog-eared political biographies are as much a part of the scenery as the hills we tramp through ill-equipped. We encounter Elvis impersonators, the eccentric French horn player and adventurer Bernard Shapiro, Norman Kirk balancing timber on his handlebars while cycling to his building site, and Summers's grandmother: the only woman imprisoned in New Zealand for protesting World War Two. And we meet the ghosts who haunt our loneliest spaces"--Publisher's website.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wellington
New Zealand
Publishing group
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
104 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77656-421-7 (9781776564217)
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Person
John Summers is the author of The Mermaid Boy, a collection of non-fiction stories published in 2015 by Hue & Cry Press. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Spinoff, North and South, Landfall, Newsroom, and Sport. He was a finalist in the 2019 Voyager Media Awards and won the nonfiction category in the 2016 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. He lives in Wellington with his family.