Women's Hotel
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Women's Hotel

A Novel

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women's Hotel

A Novel

About this book

National Bestseller

ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS—New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and more

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.

The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.

The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.

As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny.

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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Chapter One: The End of Breakfast
  5. Chapter Two: A Promise to Kitty
  6. Chapter Three: “He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha”
  7. Chapter Four: Incomprehensible Demoralization
  8. Chapter Five: The Last of Ohio
  9. Chapter Six: A Ginger Ale Dinner
  10. Chapter Seven: Dressing to Match
  11. Chapter Eight: A Haircut for Katherine
  12. Chapter Nine: A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work
  13. Chapter Ten: Ubi Sunt
  14. Chapter Eleven: “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
  15. Chapter Twelve: A Quick Trip Downtown
  16. Chapter Thirteen: A Midnight Visitor
  17. Chapter Fourteen: Wedding Season
  18. Chapter Fifteen: Belling the Cat
  19. A Note from the Cover Designer
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. About the Author
  22. Copyright
  23. About the Publisher