Hotels of North America
by Rick Moody
Buy on AmazonReginald Edward Morse is one of the “Top Reviewers” for a site called RateYourLodging.com — a man who uses the review format to spin a fractured story of love and loneliness and cockroaches and heartbreak. Hotels presents itself as a formal collection, a quasi-epistolary novel in the drag of a published guidebook, and Moody gives Morse an air of class that feels rented and roughly used. It’s a style that’s beautifully evocative except when it’s maddening (or annoying, or gross), and it gives Morse the perfect fractured voice for this postmodern tale.
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"Reginald Edward Morse is one of the “Top Reviewers” for a site called RateYourLodging.com — a man who uses the review format to spin a fractured story of love and loneliness and cockroaches and heartbreak. Hotels presents itself as a formal collection, a quasi-epistolary novel in the drag of a published guidebook, and Moody gives Morse an air of class that feels rented and roughly used. It’s a style that’s beautifully evocative except when it’s maddening (or annoying, or gross), and it gives Morse the perfect fractured voice for this postmodern tale."
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