The Glass Hotel

Paperback, 301 pages

English language

Published by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-1-4434-5573-2
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3 stars (4 reviews)

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.

Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

(From Goodreads.)

13 editions

A sprawling exploration of delusional characters

3 stars

Content warning Set against 'Station Eleven', slight spoilers for both ahead

This book infuriated me but i still finished it.

2 stars

Content warning maybe spoilers or not but just in case

Subjects

  • Literary Fiction
  • Mystery