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A Small Hotel

Robert Olen Butler
3.7
(12)
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Duration
6h
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Dreamscape Media

About

A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage. The book begins on the day that the Hays are to finalize their divorce. Kelly is due to be in court, but instead she drives to New Orleans and checks into the hotel where she and Michael fell in love some twenty years earlier and where she must now make a decision that will forever affect her, Michael, and their nineteen-year-old daughter.

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Reviews

"Starred review. A sleek, erotic, and suspenseful drama about men who cannot say the word love and the women they harm...Butler executes a plot twist of profound proportions in this gorgeously controlled, unnerving, and beautifully revealing tale of the co"
Donna Seaman, Booklist
"...skillful plotting and absorbing characters..."
New York Times
"[A] deliciously, unapologetically romantic novel...[Butler's] empathetic, precise writing flirts with melodrama but never feels hackneyed. In less skillful hands, this story would be a guilty pleasure. Instead, it's just a pleasure."
O Magazine

Artists

Robert Olen ButlerAuthor
Robert Olen ButlerReader

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