Description
| Product ID: | 9780091887872 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Hotel Bemelmans |
| Authors: | Author: Ludwig Bemelmans |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, American English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating His evocative tales of grand hotel life have a reporter's eye for sensory detail, yet he always manages to bathe his world and it's lovable characters in the mood of a fairytale. Meet the girl-hungry hotel Magician, Kalakobe the African cook, Mr Sigsag, Monsieur Victor, Mespoulet and an unforgettable cast of down but not yet out hotel employees. If there is such a thing as a comfort food book, Bemelmans'' stories are it. His evocative tales of grand hotel life have a reporter''s eye for sensory detail, yet he always manages to bathe his world and it''s lovable characters in the mood of a fairytale. Meet the girl-hungry hotel Magician, Kalakobe the African cook, Mr Sigsag, Monsieur Victor, Mespoulet and an unforgettable cast of down but not yet out hotel employees. A feast of food writing. And once you''ve read one Bemelmans'' tale you fall in love and want to read the lot. |
| Imprint Name: | Ebury Press |
| Publisher Name: | Ebury Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-10-10 |
