A Small Hotel

Name: A Small Hotel
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Olen Butler
ISBN: 9781611204711

Author: Robert Olen Butler

Narrator: Robert Olen Butler

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 11/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, 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. Butler masterfully weaves scenes of the present with memories from both Michael and Kelly, showing two people deeply in love but struggling with their own inabilities to express this love.

About Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nineteen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on March 17, 2017

I have previously read "Perfume River" by Robert Olen Butler and loved that one. "A Small Hotel" was good as well, but not on the same level, in my opinion. There is no doubt that this novel is written in a fascinating way. It's basically one long chapter about Michael's and Kelly's thoughts on thei......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on August 25, 2011

This is why I try to avoid reading other reviews of books before I write my own thoughts. According to a major newspaper's book blog, Butler's latest novel comes uncomfortably close to mirroring his own 1995 divorce, made infamous after an extremely personal email he wrote went astray. An email abou......more

Goodreads review by Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog on May 21, 2017

Superior writing, Great local details. But... In Short: Robert O. Butler can be depended upon to write compelling well crafted prose. His command of the geography of his story is complete. To believe this particular story you have to believe that people will not talk to each other. A married couple, w......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on September 21, 2011

I found a "Small Hotel" to be a very realistic and heartbreaking portrayal of a couple's life leading up to the dissolution of their marriage. The novel tells the story of their marriage through flashbacks that span the years and bring us back to the present time on the day their divorce is supposed......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on September 27, 2019

I absolutely hated this book. One of my random downloads (WHY, LORD?) and I don't know what compelled me to do that. It's only 128 pages long. 128 effing pages!!!! I barely got thru the first five pages. Why, at my age, I feel I must finish what I start is a mystery. I'm not sure I learned my lesson......more