From the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who
comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online
reviews.
Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on
RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just
details of hotels around the globe -- they tell his life story. The
puzzle of Reginald's life comes together through reviews that comment
upon his motivational speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage,
the separation from his beloved daughter, and his devotion to an amour
known only as "K."
But when Reginald disappears, we are left with the fragments of a life
-- or at least the life he has carefully constructed -- which writer
Rick Moody must make sense of. An inventive blurring of the lines
between the real and the fabricated, Hotels of North America
demonstrates Moody's masterly ability to push the bounds of the novel.