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Hotel Life - The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen (Hardcover)
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Hotel Life - The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen (Hardcover)
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What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt
Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels
are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role
in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who
and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other
powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. More than
simply structures made of steel, concrete, and glass, hotels are
social and political institutions that we invest with overlapping
and contradictory meaning. These alluring places uniquely capture
the realities of our world, where the lines between public and
private, labor and leisure, fortune and failure, desire and despair
are regularly blurred. Guiding readers through the story of hotels
as places of troublesome possibility, as mazelike physical
buildings, as inspirational touchstones for art and literature, and
as unsettling, even disturbing, backdrops for the drama of everyday
life, Levander and Guterl ensure that we will never think about
this seemingly ordinary place in the same way again.
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