The Green Hotel
- Publisher
- Quattro Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2014
- Category
- Family Life, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988254128
- Publish Date
- Nov 2014
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
Set in Toronto’s seedy underbelly, The Green Hotel challenges our notions of ‘Toronto the good’. Rich in detail, the book engages us with gritty realism and a startling portrayal of a life steeped in sex, drugs and pyromania as a young man tries to cope with the anxiety of co-existing with a suicidal father. Despite the all-enveloping despair, the main character, through moments of deep reflection and self-awareness, manages to harvest some light from the darkness.
About the author
Jesse Gilmour is a playwright and fiction author from Toronto. He is the subject of his father David Gilmour’s bestselling book, The Film Club. The Green Hotel is his first novel.