The Pink Hotel
  • Published:
    Apr-2013
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    288
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A seventeen-year-old girl pieces together the mystery of her mother's life and death among the bars and bedrooms of Los Angeles in this dazzling debut novel.

A raucous, drug-fueled party has taken over a boutique hotel on Venice Beach -- it's a memorial for Lily, the now-deceased, free-spirited proprietress of the place. Little do the attendees know that Lily's estranged daughter -- and the nameless narrator of this striking novel -- is among them, and she has just walked off with a suitcase of Lily's belongings.

Abandoned by Lily many years ago, she has come a long way to learn about her mother, and the stolen suitcase -- stuffed with clothes, letters, and photographs -- contains not only a history of her mother's love life, but perhaps also the key to her own identity. As the tough, resourceful narrator tracks down her mother's former husbands, boyfriends, and acquaintances, a risky reenactment of her life begins to unfold. Lily had a knack for falling in love with the wrong people, and one man, a fashion photographer turned paparazzo, has begun to work his sinuous charms on the young woman.

Told with high style and noirish flare, Anna Stothard's The Pink Hotel is a powerfully evocative debut novel about wish fulfillment, reckless impulse, and how we discover ourselves.
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    • First Edition
    • Apr-2013
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250026806
    • ISBN13: 9781250026804
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    • Apr-2011
    • Alma Publishing Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1846881315
    • ISBN13: 9781846881312
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    • Feb-2012
    • Alma Publishing Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1846881757
    • ISBN13: 9781846881756
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    • Apr-2011
    • Alma Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1846881714
    • ISBN13: 9781846881718
    •  
    • Apr-2013
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1250026814
    • ISBN13: 9781250026811



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