HOTELS OF NORTH AMERICA: A novel - Tapa blanda

A little book of irony and wit and heartbreak ... At its heart, Hotels of North America is a close examination of the middle-aged American male in sexual, emotional and financial free fall (New York Times)

A vivid impression of modern life ... It is a distinctly Nabokovian inclination: the everyday tinged with the existential, the comic in the midst of the profound (Guardian)

Ingenious ... original and entertaining ... Capturing the essence of our virtual reality- and social media-obsessed age, it's timely, moving and clever (Observer)

I loved this book. It's one of the funniest things I've read for a very long time. I think it contains within it some truths about the middle aged male in the current era and possibly, conceivably, any era (David Aaronovitch BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review 2016-04-16)

The transient, anonymous world of motels, coupled with the atomised texture of online communication, gives strong poetic heft to a novel about a lonely man talking into the dark (Daily Mail)

A treat ... a beady eye for the depressing details of hotel living ... His fiction comprises crisp, pacy writing, occasionally interrupted by set pieces made up of very long, percussive sentences ... Great music is often as much about restraint as virtuosity, though, and in the end, it's Moody's temperance that makes Hotels of North America work. (David Shaftel FT 2016-05-07)

How much more interesting a hotel review site might be if, instead of rating the cleanliness of the bathroom, the reviewer let rip on their emotional state on the night they stayed there ... the transient, anonymous world of motels, coupled with the atomised texture of online communication, gives strong poetic heft to a novel about a lonely man talking into the dark. (Claire Allfree Daily Mail 2016-04-08)

It was beautifully written and there were moments of real beauty, real tenderness and a lot of truth and honesty about being a middle-aged man. (Emma Woolf BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review 2016-04-16)

A little book that raises such big questions (Eugenia Williamson Boston Globe 2015-12-12)

Funny and absurd ... with a keen eye for telling details (Anna Fielding Emerald Street 2016-04-18)

Rick Moody was born in New York City. He attended Brown and Columbia Universities. He is the author of four previous novels: The Four Fingers of Death, Purple America, The Ice Storm and Garden State, as well as an award-winning memoir and multiple collections of short fiction. Moody is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Moody lives in Brooklyn, New York.