The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

She lives in Montreal with her daughter and a chihuaha named Hamlet. The internationally acclaimed author returns with a stunning national bestseller in The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Her collection of short stories, Daydreams of Angels, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her first novel Lullabies for Little Criminals, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction her second, The Girl Who was Saturday Night, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Heather O’Neill has written for This American Life and the New York Times. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same. Heather ONeill is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and essayist. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes – after years of searching and desperate poverty – the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they’ll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. : The Lonely Hearts Hotel: the Baileys Prize longlisted novel (9781849163354) by Heather-ONeill and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city’s underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. Walking the hypnotic line between tragedy and fairy tale, ONeills latest novel (The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, 2014, etc.) follows. Her first novel Lullabies for Little Criminals, was shortlisted for the Orange. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Heather ONeill has written for This American Life and the New York Times.

The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill