Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon
定價:439
NT $ 439
  • 作者:Imogen Edwards-JonesAnonymous
  • 出版社:Random House UK
  • 出版日期:2007-07-03
  • 語言:英文
  • ISBN10:0552151467
  • ISBN13:9780552151467
  • 裝訂:平裝 / 352頁 / 19.3 x 12.7 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
 

內容簡介

  奢華飯店24小時,白天與夜晚同樣瘋狂。

  吸毒的名模、搞破壞的明星、龜毛的皇室成員、拉皮條的門房,五星級大飯店不為人所知 的內幕與八卦以及業界黑暗的秘辛,都在本書赤裸裸呈現…。

  本書皆為真實故事,僅名字有所更改,以保護那些「罪人」。

  所有的趣聞、故事、角色、情境、高低潮、騙局、毒品、痛苦、愛情、死亡及荒唐事,都與本書主角「無名氏」的敘述無異─—他的大半輩子都在倫敦奢華飯店業的核心工作。然而,礙於法律因素,本書故事都發生在一間名為巴比倫的虛擬飯店裡,由無名氏主述,將十多年的時間,壓縮成二十四小時。

  奢華的五星級飯店最會A客人的錢,成本不算高的房間,住一晚就要花你10多萬;下午茶、咖啡、餅乾的成本區區幾塊錢,卻要開價上千元;虛報婚宴的開瓶費稀鬆平常,反正每個人都醉到算不清楚帳目。

  住進奢華五星級飯店的房客,最愛偷飯店裡的東西,小到菸灰缸、大到油畫、電視,連馬桶都會失竊。

  奢華五星級飯店裡的醜聞最多。上流名人總是在飯店裡,表現出他們最真實的一面,召妓、吸毒、酗酒、砸錢、開轟趴、大肆破壞房間設施等,肆無忌憚。

  奢華五星級飯店裡的住客千奇百怪,變裝癖、毒販、色情狂……,連「震動玩具」都會大剌剌地掉在飯店大廳……。花錢如流水的石油大亨,一出手,小費動輒上千元,飯店服務人員奉他們如神明。

請看──

飯店接待員如何以高明的手腕,擺平「奧客」?
酒保如何賣高價酒,掏空醉鬼肥羊的口袋?

在這裡見到──

  半夜高唱「紐約紐約」的維多利亞.貝克漢、麥克.傑克森、瑪丹娜、強尼戴普、凱特.摩斯、娜歐密.坎貝爾、潘蜜拉.安德森、黛安娜王妃、英國皇太后跟菲力普王子……一點都不稀奇。稀奇的是,他們究竟會在飯店裡做出哪些瘋狂的行為、提出哪種怪異的要求?

作者簡介

伊茉琴.愛德華.瓊斯(Imogen Edward-Jones)

  英國暢銷作家、《泰晤士報》專欄作家,擁有一系列暢銷著作,如:《決戰時裝伸展台》(Fashion Babylon)、《航空業巴比倫》(Air Babylon)、《求子日記》(The Stork Club)等。她目前致力於英國BBC的電視影集《飯店巴比倫》,跟老公還有女兒住在倫敦西郊。

  ‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.’

  All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London’s luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into twenty-four hours. Everything else is as it should be.

  The rich spend money, the hotel makes money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin.It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.

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