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Finbar's Hotel - Reviews
Publishers Weekly
Heather McCormack
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Hotels provide a cinematic setting where lost souls can comfort one another--or cower, if need be. Finbar's Hotel, a fictitious Dublin firetrap, is no different, and seven contemporary Irish writers--Roddy Doyle (The Woman Who Walked into Doors, LJ 2/15/96) being the most recognizable to American readers--have each written a "room" anonymously. The collaboration blends humor, tragedy, and love. Readers will feel like flies on Finbar's peeling walls, seeing and hearing a little too much of the guests' lives. As editor, Bolger builds a smooth series of crises without cramping the writers' styles (and those "rooms" aren't very big). With luck, the film rights have already been sold and the director will make a better movie than Four Rooms with Finbar's three-dimensional cast of characters. Recommended for popular fiction collections.
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