Eimear McBride

Broschiertes Buch

Strange Hotel

Beschreibung

From the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction'Powerful . She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now. Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms, from Prague to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each as anonymous as the last.

Autor

Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London. Her first novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to find a publisher and subsequently received a number of awards, including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Goldsmiths Prize. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 she was awarded the inaugural Creative Fellowship of the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, academics, and fiction writers, McBride was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Strange Hotel is McBride's third novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber / Faber & Faber, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 30154
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9780571355150
• ISBN-10: 0571355153
• Artikelnr.: 60125367

Rezensionen

Strange Hotel already has the stamp of immortality on it. A deep dissection of desire and aloneness, in its familiarity and strangeness, it seems even newer and more radical than McBride's previous novels. As Anne Enright has said, she is something of a genius. Sebastian Barry