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| Verlag | Pushkin Press |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 13 x 1,5 x 20 cm |
| Gewicht | 180 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781782277910 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78227791UA |
Truly a great book unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better. Anthony Bourdain
Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books
Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel
In this charming and uproariously funny hotel memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls.
In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining.
[Bemelmans] was the original bad boy of the NY hotel/restaurant subculture, a waiter, busboy, and restaurateur who told all in a series of funny and true (or very near true) autobiographical accounts of backstairs folly, excess, borderline criminality, and madness in the grande Hotel Splendide If you like stories about old New York as I do, this classic will have you laughing out loud. Anthony Bourdain
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CONTENTS
1. The Animal Waiter 7
2. Art at the Hotel Splendide 14
3. The Lost Mandolin 23
4. Easy Money 35
5. Kalakobe 43
6. A Night in Granada 51
7. The Hispano 56
8. The Homesick Bus Boy 62
9. The New Suit 70
10. The Ballet Visits the Magician 82
11. The Magician Does a New Trick 89
12. The Dreams of the Magician 96
13. My Valet Lustgarten 105
14. The Banquet 116
15. The Murderer of the Splendide 129