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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I really wanted to like this, but the writing was so hard to engage with
emotional
sad
fast-paced
The following reviews have been shared by Text Publishing - publisher of The Grass Hotel
‘Pays homage to the body in all its vulnerabilities…The Grass Hotel is an unsparing but humane portrait of a mother and son.’
Books+Publishing
'Short and sharp, savage yet tender, and written with a poet's touch -a bittersweet portrait of mother and son by an award-winning Australian novelist.’
North Melbourne Books Newsletter
‘The novel’s poetic, image-rich, disjointed realm is immersive and memorable…The Grass Hotel leaves us with a persuasive articulation of familial power dynamics, their emotional turbulence.’
Guardian
'[Craig Sherborne] writes simple sentences full of emotional power…This [is a] soul-searching novel, in which long-suppressed memories are hinted at and then slowly released.’
Stephen Romei, Saturday Paper
'At every turn the book’s natural lyricism and gentle melancholy rub against [a] darker mood—resentment, disappointment, all the unsettled scores of parent and child, even after death...At every turn the prose is taut, fractured and imagistic—a sustained act of broken beauty over 200 pages…[Sherborne] has used fiction and imagination to raise the contemptuous cliche of a common life to the highest fury and power…What matters more than the mere actual of personal history is the summoned force of art, and it’s here where the book’s power lies. It is genuinely haunted, and haunts in turn.’
Adam Rivett, Age/SMH
‘Sherborne does an incredible job with the mother’s narration...Brilliantly written.’
Good Reading
‘[A] remarkable feat of wordsmithing…It’s a version of a black and terrible joke that the person who has lost correct and coherent language is written by someone who is something of a word magician...The Grass Hotel stands alone as a virtuosic deferral of self-examination by delivering an often cruel version of a woman who has lost her mind.’
Australian Book Review
'[The Grass Hotel] shows off Sherborne’s considerable experience as both a poet and playwright.’
Big Issue
‘Told in a sometimes comic, sometimes abrasive wild poetry.’
Advertiser
‘Pays homage to the body in all its vulnerabilities…The Grass Hotel is an unsparing but humane portrait of a mother and son.’
Books+Publishing
'Short and sharp, savage yet tender, and written with a poet's touch -a bittersweet portrait of mother and son by an award-winning Australian novelist.’
North Melbourne Books Newsletter
‘The novel’s poetic, image-rich, disjointed realm is immersive and memorable…The Grass Hotel leaves us with a persuasive articulation of familial power dynamics, their emotional turbulence.’
Guardian
'[Craig Sherborne] writes simple sentences full of emotional power…This [is a] soul-searching novel, in which long-suppressed memories are hinted at and then slowly released.’
Stephen Romei, Saturday Paper
'At every turn the book’s natural lyricism and gentle melancholy rub against [a] darker mood—resentment, disappointment, all the unsettled scores of parent and child, even after death...At every turn the prose is taut, fractured and imagistic—a sustained act of broken beauty over 200 pages…[Sherborne] has used fiction and imagination to raise the contemptuous cliche of a common life to the highest fury and power…What matters more than the mere actual of personal history is the summoned force of art, and it’s here where the book’s power lies. It is genuinely haunted, and haunts in turn.’
Adam Rivett, Age/SMH
‘Sherborne does an incredible job with the mother’s narration...Brilliantly written.’
Good Reading
‘[A] remarkable feat of wordsmithing…It’s a version of a black and terrible joke that the person who has lost correct and coherent language is written by someone who is something of a word magician...The Grass Hotel stands alone as a virtuosic deferral of self-examination by delivering an often cruel version of a woman who has lost her mind.’
Australian Book Review
'[The Grass Hotel] shows off Sherborne’s considerable experience as both a poet and playwright.’
Big Issue
‘Told in a sometimes comic, sometimes abrasive wild poetry.’
Advertiser
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
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sad
slow-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia
Moderate: Animal death, Death