Hotel (novel)

Hotel is a novel of 1965 by Arthur Hailey. The novel is about an independent hotel in New Orleans, St. Gregory, and the efforts of management to make it after a period of mismanagement profitable again, while avoiding the hostile takeover by the O'Keefe Hotel chain.

The novel was filmed in 1967 as a feature film, and from 1983 to 1988 in the form of a television series.

Action

The central figure of the story is Peter McDermott, the hotel manager, who is still young, but still has a disreputable past and is now trying to regain a foothold. He is striving to solve numerous problems in the hotel, which is not made him particularly from conservative hotel owner simply. Several hotel employees are corrupt, the owner wants this but not dismissed, as they have long been working there and he mistakenly gives them confidence. The hotel is a financial burden, a high payment is due, which can not be supplied by the owner, so that he actually would have to sell the hotel. The owner of the hotel chain O'Keefe knows this and wants the hotel is happy to incorporate his company. The Duke and Duchess of Croydon stay in the Presidential Suite, the Duke was to blame for a fatal traffic accident involving a hit and run. In the hotel a hotel thief comes to, sons respected citizen hold a wild party where it comes to blows.

The novel's plot extends from Monday to Friday for 5 days and includes several plot lines that run through the novel and come to a head until the final in one of the elevators with a fatal accident.

Figures

  • Peter McDermott, Hotel manager
  • Warren Trent, owner
  • Christine Francis, secretary of Warren Trent
  • Aloysius Royce, (colored ) Servant of Warren Trent
  • Curtis O'Keefe, owner of the hotel chain O'Keefe
  • Dorothy "Dodo " Lash, " companion " of O'Keefe
  • Albert Wells, senior hotel guest with health problems
  • Duke and Duchess of Croydon, stay in the Presidential Suite
  • Ogilvie, detective
  • Julius " Keycase " Milne, hotel thief
  • Herbie Chandler, corrupt head porter

Accounting evidence

Arthur Hailey, Hotel, Ullstein Frankfurt 1966, ISBN 3-548-02841-1

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
Hotel (TV series)
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