Leaving Small's Hotel
By Eric Kraft
1998
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
346
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With this, his seventh novel, Eric Kraft once again gives readers and critics everywhere a reason to Kirkus declared it "one of the most delightful novels of the decade," while Publishers Weekly asked, "Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?" Small's Hotel is where Peter and Albertine Leroy have spent their lives, hosting visitors while Peter works on his memoirs. But as guests grow harder to come by the future of the hotel—and of every gift Peter ever dreamed of giving his wife—is in jeopardy. What he does to save his marriage is a story involving friendship, childhood, gadgets, and great, abiding love.
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
53
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
8%
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Author
Eric Kraft
Author · 14 books
Eric Kraft grew up in Babylon, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island, where he was for a time co-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank. He met or invented the character Peter Leroy while dozing over a German lesson during his first year at Harvard. The following year, he married his muse, Madeline Canning; they have two sons. After earning a Master’s Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kraft taught school in the Boston area for a while, moonlighting as a rock music critic for the Boston Phoenix. Since then, he has undertaken a variety of hackwork to support the Kraft ménage and the writing of the voluminous work of fiction that he calls The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy. He has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; was, briefly, chairman of PEN New England; and has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
