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Catherine Hanrahan
ISBN:

0060846844
ISBN13:

978-0060846848
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Fiction / Literature
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Harper Perennial; Uncorrected Advance Proof edition (July 3, 2006)
Pages:

240 pages
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World Literature
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English
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Catherine Hanrahan's debut novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels is the story of a stranger in a strange land. She ends up drinking, taking drugs and spending time in 3 hour love hotels to get away from it all. She is still a very touching heroine.

Lost Girls & Love Hotels A Novel Catherine Hanrahan For my parents Mary and Robert Hanrahan Contents Part One The Outer Space Room Part Two The Beginning of a Ne. Mary and Robert Hanrahan.

Catherine Hanrahan is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels was a shortlisted finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2007. The novel was based on her own experience living and working in Tokyo as an English teacher. The novel was later optioned by Jean-Marc Vallée for adaptation as a feature film, which would have starred Kate Bosworth. The film was not made at that time, and it was not until 2017 that a new production was announced. Jul 08, 2008 Mary Lynn rated it really liked it.

Catherine Hanrahan 's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story Extra and Open City. Born in Montreal, she has lived in Thailand, England, and Japan, where she worked as a bar hostess and English teacher. Библиографические данные. Lost Girls and Love Hotels: A Novel.

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Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyo's exotic nightlife -- teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels -- enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute by day, and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night, Margaret represses memories of her painful childhood and her older brother Frank's descent into madness.

But Margaret's deliberate nihilism is thrown off balance as she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo. And when she becomes enamored of Kazu, a mysterious gangster, their affair sparks a chain of events that could spell tragedy for Margaret, in a city where it's all too easy to disappear.

Kekinos

I took my first look at the cover of my newly-arrived copy of Lost Girls, and was dismayed. It screamed Chick Lit, a genre that's definitely out of my demographic (and for the most part, out of my sphere of interest). That screaming pinkness, the Japanimation cartoon, the semi-lurid font... Did I really want to subject myself to yet another neurotic-woman/child-takes-on-the-world-of-work account?

Well, shame on Harper Perennial for making me judge a book by its cover (a huge issue these days, in my very humble opinion). If I hadn't held my nose and dived into the deceptively-designed thing, I would've missed an excellent reading experience.

This book is absolutely terrific. I loved it. LOVED it. There's not a word out of place, the main character is far more engaging than the average 20-something-on-her-own, and the insights into Japanese pop culture create a fascinating backdrop to a quirky, well-turned story. I'd been to Japan long ago, but I knew nothing of Love Hotels (the cover treatment predisposed me to think of them as squalid and furtive, not the truly interesting phenomenon that they are). I felt Hanrahan's descriptions of Tokyo, as seen by Margaret, were amazing and droll. Her character's obvious, skewed love for her adopted culture not only provided succinct pictures of a world that, to the average American, might exist in another semi-parallel galaxy, but elevated her coming-to-grips tale well above the usual "lost girl" saga. There is a generosity of heart here that is hard to find in run-of-the-mill Chick Lit.

Read this book. You'll enjoy it. Forgive the committee that designed the cover; they had far too narrow an audience in mind. Such limitations, so common in the big publishing houses these days, drive me mad; I sincerely hope Ms. Hanrahan does not lose readership because somebody designed Lost Girls to be read by the young. Good writing like this deserves more than one generation of readers. And a movie, too, if you ask me.

Susan O'Neill, author, Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

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Catherine Hanrahan's debut novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels is the story of a stranger in a strange land. The stranger is Margaret, a young woman who teaches English (or English pronounciation) in a stewardess school and the strange land is Japan.

On surface this could be the story of any 20-something searching for identity, salving old wounds with sex and drugs. Dig a little deeper, however, and you see that there is much more than meets the eye. Like most young women who have absent fathers, distracted mothers, and emotionally disturbed siblings, Margaret thinks she is running away, but what she really is doing is finding a way to save herself, looking for love (albeit in all the wrong places), and soothing herself with drugs and sex. She is, after all, still trapped in childhood; an adult who still sucks her thumb in order to fall asleep.

When Margaret's lover, Kazu, asks her why she came to Japan, Margaret responds, "To be alone." Of course, he finds this response odd, and so she follows up with, "It's an easy place to be alone."

Is this book specifically about life in Japan? Could it not have been set anywhere? I would argue the latter, as it seems to me the message is universal. Anyone who has ever felt as though she were running away, will see herself in this book. Anyone who has lived on an edge waiting for death, will also. And those who have been lost and found--those who have lived despite all of the odds against them (instead of being the unfortunates whose remains are later found), will find the ending triumphant.

In a way, life in Japan destroys Margaret (and almost kills her) and as such, it allows her to be reborn: "I stand like a planet, the constellation of seeds radiating from me, spilling from my pockets. I see, as if for the first time, the quality of the air. Bluish light filtered through it. The sun, like a yolk hanging languorously behind the trees. The air with its giddy bite of anticipation. I breathe it in like anesthesia, but it doesn't put me to sleep. It wakes me up."

tref

This book rocks, the author really takes you into japans dark and wild side. I really enjoyed reading this book i learned things about japan. Its worth getting

Precious

I thought this was really well done. It was reminiscent of my younger, more self destructive, years.Anyone who can relate to the emotional state of the narrator will enjoy this --or be horrified by the look inside their own demons. I personally enjoyed it.

It's the story of a girl running away -physically and mentally- from nothing in particular, just a generically unhappy childhood/adolescence. Her time in Tokyo is not humanitarian, it's not about finding herself, it's just about existing. She does that, using chemical aids pretty frequently to try and make herself have fun. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but either way it is never a permanent fix.

There's not a lot to say about the book without giving away fairly major plot points, but I think it is well written and compelling - at least for those who can relate to the characters.

Vozuru

Mags is a young American woman living in Tokyo. Back in the US her brother is a schizophrenic, her mom doesn't cope to well and her dad is dead. Mags has a lot of issues on her mind, and she tries to go through life by not thinking about what really matters. She ends up drinking, taking drugs and spending time in 3 hour love hotels to get away from it all. She is still a very touching heroine. I found the exotic world of sex, drugs, and wild characters and places that surround her only add to the sense of her being lost in an otherwordly place. Recommended.

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