Hunt's novel is a wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between theeccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla lived out his last days.
HOTEL WORLD, which was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001, is about Sarah Wilby, a chambermaid in a hotel, who dies in an accident on the job. Various characters who either knew her, were related to her, or witnessed the event, contribute short chapters about Sarah's life and death.
Sassy Hummel, deserted by her husband and in need of work, takes a job as a chambermaid in a hotel. Feeling generally dispirited, not to mention dowdy (especially after she makes friends with Racquel, a glamorous transvestite), Sassy thinks it's the last straw when a parakeet poops on her head. However, it's the beginning of a new life: the ...
When her father dies and leaves everything he had to her stepmother, the lovely and pampered Katya Morgan is forced to give up her posh lifestyle and get a job. Without any work experience, Katya's options are limited and so she is forced to take the only job she can find--as a maid in a hotel managed by the wealthy and handsome Alex Sheridan.
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