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Mon, Sep 25, 2023 02:00PM EDT
Lot 1

Ali Smith, "Hotel World"

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Ali Smith

 

The Arts Foundation Ambassador & Short Story Writing Fellow, 2001

 

Hotel World, 2001

 

Ali Smith’s personal, original and travelling reading copy of Hotel World, first edition and first printing, 2001. Including a beautiful personal note from the renowned author.

 

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and ambitious book, Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one’s shoe ...

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