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Stathis Rakis abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life, first in San Francisco, where the Dot Com Bubble had already burst, and then in Paris, France, where he is pursuing an MBA at an elite business school. After falling helplessly in love with a liberal New England journalist, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a consultant for a company called Command. Luxury is a given, happiness is not. As the economy recovers and a new bubble expands in a post-9/11 world, Stathis drifts upward, baring witness to the criminal decadence that will become the 2008 financial crisis, as well as his new habits of indulgence - drugs, sex, and insider trading.
- Sales Rank: #5692876 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-14
- Released on: 2015-07-14
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.04" h x 1.13" w x 6.04" l, .15 pounds
- Running time: 533 minutes
- Binding: MP3 CD
Review
“Ioannis Pappos’s Hotel Living could be The Great Gatsby, reincarnated in a contemporary hell beyond even F. Scott Fitzgerald’s imagination. It’s harrowing. It’s smart and sexy; it’s funny and tragic. It is, in short, a great and terrible beauty of a book.” (Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Queen and The Hours)
“If Trollope were alive today, and he wanted to write The Way We Live Nowabout New York’s élite consultants, he would have written Hotel Living. Really a terrific book.” (Edmund White)
“Thrilling storytelling with universal appeal.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“At once a cool-eyed satire and an unexpectedly heartfelt meditation on the meaning of home.” (Condé Nast Traveler)
“Pappos is a first-rate storyteller and keen observer of our current moment. The prose here shimmers and the narration drives hard like the hard living lives in these pages. It’s a smart book that also happens to be entertaining…. I can’t wait for his next book.” (Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead)
“Sex, drugs and insider trading abound in Ioannis Pappos’ tale of one immigrant’s rise in the world of corporate finance. The lifestyles described tow the line between fascinating and sickening, allowing you to determine how harshly the characters deserve to be judged.” (Paste Magazine)
“Welcome to the glitzy, high-octane world of . . . management consulting…. Plenty of storytelling verve to keep readers engaged.” (Booklist)
“Pappos delivers a fast-moving narrative set in the new model world of the international business culture, junior division…. The sexual and social mores of a wired world…are well and truly captured through sharp conversations and vivid vignettes.” (Anthony Haden-Guest, author ofThe Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and The Culture of the Night)
“Like a cross between The Wolf of Wall Street and Edith Wharton, Ioannis Pappos gets all the details right in this insider’s look at love and money in New York City in the post-millennial age. Pappos is such a good writer.” (Ira Sachs, writer and director of The Delta, Keep The Lights On, and Love Is Strange)
“Ioannis Pappos may be the F. Scott Fitzgerald of the wired postmillennial age. Hotel Living is an unforgettable debut…about love, sex, class, greed, and the search for one’s humanity against the blinding light of the American Dream.” (Julia Fierro, author of Cutting Teeth)
“You can’t for the life of you put the book down.” (Jason Diamond, Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
“One of the most exciting coming-of-age books I have read since Bright Lights, Big City.” (Melissa McConnell, author of Evidence of Love)
“As he romps through the highs and lows of the global economy, Ioannis Pappos will make you laugh even as he lays bare the very real human costs of our recent—and current—economic troubles. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Hotel Living captures perfectly our own interesting times.” (Scott Lasser, author of All I Could Get)
“We’ve read and watched depictions of the reckless excess of our recent gilded age, but rarely do we get a glimpse into the inner life of one of its players. Hotel Living is The Wolf of Wall Street with a heart.” (Mike Albo, author of The Junket)
“Pappos keeps the story moving at a great pace that nails the feeling of confusion when one chases a love that is often unrequited.” (Lambda Literary Review)
“Hotel Living is nothing short of a masterpiece. It moved me and will continue to do so in more ways than I could imagine possible for a story told with such disarming clarity.” (Pappas Post)
“This quick read rivals The Wolf of Wall Street in its provocative tale of excess—luxe hotels, insider trading, physical altercations and casual sex abound.” (Frontier, “10 Beach Reads”)
From the Back Cover
"I'm homeless, but in first class."
Stathis Rakis has abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life, first in San Francisco, where the dot-com bubble had already burst, and then in Paris, France, at a top business school. After falling in love with a liberal New England journalist with a good conscience (but with some scores to settle), Stathis moves to the United States to work as a management consultant for a high-octane company called Command. He spends the very few hours of the day that aren't consumed by work draining the minibar of whichever five-star hotel he's currently calling home, battling insomnia, and bingeing on more than room service. Luxury is a given; happiness is not.
As the economy recovers and a new bubble expands in a post-9/11 world, Stathis drifts upward, bearing witness to the criminal decadence that will become the 2008 financial crisis while developing his own habits of indulgence—drugs, sex, and insider trading. In a world of insatiability that features both corporate suits and Hollywood hedonism, Stathis remains the outsider: too foreign to be one of them, too cynical to turn back.
About the Author
Ioannis Pappos is a management consultant and writer from Pelio, Greece. He is a graduate of Stanford University and INSEAD Business School, and has worked in both the U.S. and Europe. Ioannis contributes to blogs and magazines. He lives in New York City.
Neil Shah is an Audie Award–nominated narrator and voiceover artist who has recorded numerous audiobooks, including I Am an Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran, The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais, and Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey In the Congo by Anjan Sundaram. He is a classically trained actor with an MFA from the Old Globe/University of San Diego program and has appeared on off-Broadway and regional stages, as well as in film and television. Neil currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife.
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The battle of greed versus emotion...well-written and compelling.
By Larry Hoffer
Having spent the majority of my career working in the nonprofit field, it's hard for me to fathom the unbelievable excesses that those in the business world took advantage of in the mid-2000s, until the economy tanked. It sounds similar to the "greed is good" philosophy that pervaded the 1980s, and much as during that era, those who rose the highest often fell the hardest.
In Ioannis Pappos' Hotel Living, Stathis Rakis flees his seemingly ordinary life in a small Greek village to pursue college and a career in San Francisco, and then decides to attend a prestigious business school in Paris to obtain his MBA. It is there that he befriends a number of privileged expatriates from all over the world, whose lives of profligate spending and entitlement amaze him (while causing him some amount of envy), and he is a bit of a paradox to his friends. During graduate school, Stathis also falls—hard—for Eric, a liberal journalist with a strong social conscience despite his own privileged upbringing.
After graduation, Stathis takes a high-paying job as a management consultant, and finds himself spending the bulk of his time living in hotels, building relationships with the hotel staff, and moving from city to city as his job warrants it. When he isn't working, he's pining for Eric and trying to figure out where he fits in Eric's life, all the while both loving him madly and being angered by Eric's philosophy of the world. As their relationship waxes and wanes, Stathis fills his minimal amount of spare time uneasy in the social spotlight, trying to salve his emotional turmoil with copious amounts of drugs and alcohol. And his downward spiral is fueled by his heart, his greed, his ambition, and his conscience.
I found this book thanks to an ad on Goodreads (the cover blurb by Michael Cunningham caught my eye), and I found it tremendously well-written, part social commentary on this culture of excess and wanton lust and addiction, and part an emotional chronicle of a man who can't seem to overcome heartbreak, someone unable to return to the world he knows but not-quite-comfortable with the world he lives in. Ioannis is a fascinating, immensely flawed character, and his crises are painful to read about but compelling at the same time.
I could have done with a little more character building and interpersonal relationships in the book and less with the extensive details about the work that Stathis and his friends did, and at times the book introduced so many characters at once it was hard to discern who was whom, but Pappos created a fascinating look at a world that many got to experience, while not many came out unscathed. Stathis is a complex character I can't get out of my head, and I'd love to know if Pappos has given any thought to what came next for him.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Thoughtful, intense, and authentic.
By Patrick W. Santana
Now here’s an incredible tale… of obsession, of class, of seeking, of losing, and maybe of finding. Told from Page 1 by a writer in masterful control of language and tone, Pappos’ novel about his decade as an up-and-coming consultant at Command (a fictional consulting firm) came on like the rush of a fast flood, sweeping me into the story with barely time to catch my breath. His sentences are compact, his descriptions succinct... telling without being overblown... exactly enough to let me, as a reader, find the fullness of what's being told. My mind felt very awake taking this novel in.
At times hilarious, at other times wicked, 'Hotel Living' is always entertaining. I’m often surprised how some writers have a 'great ear' for dialog — and Iannos Pappos is one of them. And he has an uncanny knack for remembering it, getting down all the elision and cadence of real conversation. Of course, 'Hotel Living' is full of zingers and sharp verbal exchanges. But it's all told in dense, smart writing that felt natural to the way people talk and the way the characters were as individuals. Authentic.
Edmund White likens this book to Trollope’s “The Way We Live Now.” Others compare it to “The Wolf of Wall Street.” For me, Pappos’ writing conjured up Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.” A raw, intense story built around a figure I didn’t necessarily love (at first) or understand but nevertheless pulled me in, made me believe, made me care. Wonderful all the way.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great read for summer and anytime
By Ozerk Gogus
A mesmerizing read full of suspense, insider trading, love, hopes, disappointments, desires, drugs, ups and downs of a life that may sound unreal at times yet you suddenly find yourself in "Stathis" at the most unexpected moment .... I could not drop it from my hand once I started and didn't want it to end. Recommend it to everyone.
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