During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy: hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, Hotel visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies - the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels. ukryj opis