Hotel

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy...hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies-the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09/24/2015
ISBN: 9781628924732
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015
New York Times Book Review 11/08/2015 pg. 10