Author

Publication

2022 - Victoria University of Wellington Press

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781776564590
  • ISBN-101776564596
  • Better World Books9781776564590
  • Open LibraryOL39418361M

Description

"Combining reportage and memoir, 'The commercial hotel' is a sharp-eyed, poignant yet often hilarious tour of Aotearoa: a place in which Arcoroc mugs and dog-eared political biographies are as much a part of the scenery as the hills we tramp through ill-equipped. We encounter Elvis impersonators, the eccentric French horn player and adventurer Bernard Shapiro, Norman Kirk balancing timber on his handlebars while cycling to his building site, and Summers's grandmother: the only woman imprisoned in New Zealand for protesting World War Two. And we meet the ghosts who haunt our loneliest spaces"--Publisher's website.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Commercial HotelVictoria University of Wellington Press2022

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