- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: MacMillan; Auflage: New edition (8. Januar 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0330370073
- ISBN-13: 978-0330370073
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,4 x 13 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 260.194 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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It calls itself a novel, but Finbar's Hotel is really more a collection of related short stories by novelists. Irish writer Dermot Bolger came up with the idea to invite six of his literary colleagues to collaborate on a tale about a decrepit Dublin Hotel on the eve of its demolition. In its prime, Finbar's was a glorious place; now, however, it's the haunt of prostitutes and thieves. A new owner plans to pull it down, but before he does, the seven authors (Bolger, Anne Enright, Joseph O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Jennifer Johnston, Hugo Hamilton, and Colm Tóibín) imagine for it one last night. In "Benny Does Dublin" we meet Ben Winters, a fortysomething husband and father on the lam from his loving family for a single night. "He'd never been in a hotel room before. He wanted to see what staying in one was like. He was curious. All of these were right, honest answers. But why alone? Why so close to home?" "White Lies" introduces Rose and Ivy, two sisters united by love, divided by a painful secret. In "The Test" Maureen Connolly comes to Finbar's to hide from a broken heart and ends up mending it instead.
The serial novel has been tried before; what provides Finbar's Hotel with its twist is that none of the stories are signed. Bolger leaves it up to his readers to guess who's who. Those familiar with the work of these Irish novelists will enjoy the puzzle; others will still have these seven stories of love, despair, and redemption to relish. --Alix Wilber -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Seven Irish novelistsJoseph O'Connor, Anne Enright, Colm Tobn, Roddy Doyle, Jennifer Johnston, Hugo Hamilton, and Bolger himselfcollaborate, with generally good and at times outstanding results, to tell a tale of a single night in a once-famous, soon-to-be-demolished Dublin hotel. Each of the writers here brings to life a guest who occupies a room on the first floor. Room 101 provides novel entertainment for aging Ben, who's never before been in a hotel. His walk on the wild side takes him in and out of his room, the bar, the residents' lounge, and the nightclub, until finally his intervention in a curbside domestic dispute rewards him with a bloody nose. For sisters Rose and Ivy in 102, it's a rare meeting, requested by matronly Ivy in order to persuade her London-based sibling to come home to see their mothersomething Rose has refused to do since leaving home at age 17. Ken walks into 103 with a ghetto-blaster and a plot to get his revenge on the woman who jilted him. The stories from 104 and 105 are easily the most striking: the former involves the hotel manager and the history of Finbar's, which achieved its success partly through the famous discretion of the founder, the grandfather of the man in 104; the woman in 105 is dying of cancer, but by chance meets an Irish-Jewish tour guide from New York, who gives her the courage to tell her husband and children her sad secret. Peopling other tales are a woman over from America to settle her father's estate (and her memory of a teenage romance), and a burglar trying to sell a Rembrandt and other paintings that represent the heist of his life. More than a curiosity, but less than a masterwork: a collection that holds together surprisingly well given that each story is ultimately self-contained. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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I picked this book up as an American who only knew Roddy Doyle's work. Now I want to read all the other authors because they all are amazing writers. The strength of the writing keeps you interested and quessing who the author is of each short chapter. The characters all weave together as they spend one evening in the hotel. It is fun to look back and see the characters from different points of view in each chapter. This book has a great concept which makes it more fun to read than similiar novels. It is worth a read.
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Seven inter-linked short stories, set in the same fictitious hotel on the quays in Dublin. The stories range from the out-right funny to the somewhat disturbing. The author of each story is not identified, but it is left for the reader to guess (I think I've identified three out of the seven).
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In the tradition (but not awful quality) of the movie Four Rooms, editor Bolger brings together six of Ireland's top authors to each tell the tale of one room and the circumstances which bring its occupant there. He's managed to solicit a nice set of loosely related short stories although I didn't find "Room 102 -- White Lies" or "Room 106 -- An Old Flame" quite as compelling as the others. Once of the nice little twists is that the reader doesn't know which author wrote which story, and not being an expert on those represented, I'd hesitate to hazard any guesses. This is about as good an introduction as any to the six modern Irish writers represented.
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