Hotel is a novel by Arthur Hailey. It is the story of an independent New Orleans hotel, the St. Gregory, to regain profitability and avoid being assimilated into the O'Keefe chain of hotels. Arthur Haileys novel Hotel cover This image is a book cover. ... Arthur Haileys novel Hotel cover This image is a book cover. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 - November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
Characters
Peter McDermott, manager
Warren Trent, proprietor
Christine Francis, secretary to Warren Trent
Curtis O'Keefe, owner of the O'Keefe chain
Albert Wells, aging hotel guest
Ogilvie, house detective
The novel was adapted into a movie in 1967, and later into a television series. Peter McDermott involves himself not only in the overtures by two different buyers, he also takes an interest in the upper class European guest. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The television drama Hotel aired on ABC from 1983 to 1988. ...
The novel was adapted into a movie in 1967, and later into a television series.
Hailey's meticulous research means that he is big on telling details, especially regarding the dark side of the hotel: Meg Yetmein, the cleaning lady, "gets hers back" by smuggling out steaks under her clothing toward the end of her shift; Tom Earlshore, the fired bartender, does much the same by "skimming" liquor.
The hotel lobby exemplifies this problem, to which the detective novel with its gradually revealed emplotment of apparently anonymous characters is an exaggerated reaction.
Hotel lobbies are spaces waiting to be given meaning by purposeful narratives and minimal signs of activity, the checking of a watch or a brief exchange of glances, stimulate a hermeneutics of suspicion, a preoccupation with the visual signs or clues which will turn banality into intrigue, routine into a plot.
Hopper represents the hotel lobby as a type of border area, it is a zonal interior through which people come and go, pass in and out and sometimes loiter between the public world of the city street and the private world of the hotel rooms upstairs.
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