Hotel Living: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback))
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062376365 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. I can’t wait for his next book.” (Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead)“Sex, drugs and insider trading abound in Ioannis Pappos’ tale of one immigrant’s rise in the world of corporate finance. Hotel Living is an unforgettable debut…about love, sex, class, greed, and the search for one’s humanity against the blinding light of the American Dream.” (Julia Fierro, author of Cutting Teeth)“You can’t for the life of you put the book down.” (Jason Diamond, Vol. The sexual and social mores of a wired world…are well and truly captured through sharp conversations and vivid vignettes.” (Anthony Haden-Guest, author ofThe Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and The Culture of the Night)“Like a cross between T
"The battle of greed versus emotionwell-written and compelling." according to Larry Hoffer. Having spent the majority of my career working in the nonprofit field, it's hard for me to fathom the unbelievable excesses that those in the business world took advantage of in the mid-2000s, until the economy tanked. It sounds similar to the "greed is good" philosophy that pervaded the 1980s, and much as during that era, those who rose the highest often fell the hardest.In Ioannis Pappos' Hotel Living, Stathis Rakis flees his seemingly ordinary life in a small Greek village . Patrick W. Santana said Thoughtful, intense, and authentic.. Now here’s an incredible tale… of obsession, of class, of seeking, of losing, and maybe of finding. Told from Page 1 by a writer in masterful control of language and tone, Pappos’ novel about his decade as an up-and-coming consultant at Command (a fictional consulting firm) came on like the rush of a fast flood, sweeping me into the story with barely time to catch my breath. His sentences are compact, his descriptions succinct telling without being overblown. Great read for summer and anytime A mesmerizing read full of suspense, insider trading, love, hopes, disappointments, desires, drugs, ups and downs of a life that may sound unreal at times yet you suddenly find yourself in "Stathis" at the most unexpected moment . I could not drop it from my hand once I started and didn't want it to end. Recommend it to everyone.
Ioannis Pappos is a management consultant and writer from Pelio, Greece. Hotel Living is his first novel.. A graduate of Stanford and the INSEAD Business School, he lives in New York City
After falling helplessly in love with a liberal New England journalist with a good conscience, who comes to campus with some scores to settle, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a consultant for a company called Command. In a world of insiders--from corporate suits to Hollywood celebutantes—Stathis remains the outsider: too foreign to be one of them, too cynical to turn back.. Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction!Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction!Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos’s debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled with surprisingly tender observations about identity, loneliness, and human connection.“I’