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Hotel Living: A Novel
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Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos's debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled with surprisingly tender observations about identity, loneliness, and human connection.

"I'm homeless, but in First Class."

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 with a good conscience, who comes to campus with some scores to settle, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a consultant for a company called Command. He spends the very few hours of the day that aren't consumed by work draining the minibar, battling insomnia, and binging 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, 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. In a world of insiders—from corporate suits to Hollywood celebutantes—Stathis remains the outsider: too foreign to be one of them, too cynical to turn back.

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Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the drifting narrator of A Single Man, Ioannis Pappos's debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled with surprisingly tender observations about identity, loneliness, and human connection.

"I'm homeless, but in First Class."

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 with a good conscience, who comes to campus with some scores to settle, Stathis moves to the United States to begin as a consultant for a company called Command. He spends the very few hours of the day that aren't consumed by work draining the minibar, battling insomnia, and binging on more than room service. Luxury is a given, happiness is not.

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      • source: Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Queen and The Hours
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        "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 Now about 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...

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        May 1, 2015
        An intrepid rising star in the business world longs for intimacy in Pappos' debut novel. By a stroke of luck, Stathis leaves his fishing village in Greece at age 13 to attend school in Athens. He later becomes a graduate of Stanford and enters an international MBA program at the European Business School in Paris. Although he gets used to a jet-set world of money and hedonism, a part of him is just the son of a fisherman at heart. When he meets Erik, a journalism student who writes a scathing article about EBS, Stathis quickly falls in love with him even though they have wildly different lifestyles and values. While their relationship continues for several years, Erik, a trust-fund kid who has never known what it's like to be poor, looks down on Stathis' work as a business consultant. It doesn't help that Stathis travels so much for work that he spends most of his nights in various hotels. Eventually, his hectic schedule and their different values tear them apart. Later, Stathis finds comfort in a housing arrangement with Tatiana, the 20-year-old daughter of a famous Hollywood actress. With Tatiana, Stathis enjoys cocaine and threesomes and, in some ways, a greater sense of home than he had with Erik. Tatiana is by far the most interesting character in the novel, but she doesn't appear until the second half. Much of the writing is crude, and the central relationship between Stathis and Erik never takes off. The storyline dedicated to Stathis' work as a business consultant, including his "Innovate through Simplicity" brand that wins him a promotion, is full of jargon that does nothing to draw the reader in. A joyless and basically plotless novel about a rootless existence.

        COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        Welcome to the glitzy, high-octane world of . . . management consulting. Stathis Rakis leaves his small Greek fishing village behind, graduating from Stanford and then attending an elite European business school in France. While there, he falls in love with Erik, an American studying journalism at Oxford. Stathis' new job at Command Consulting, a firm with a worldwide clientele, keeps him sleepless and rootless; he is homeless, but in first class, as he puts it. He decides to settle in New York City to be close to Erik, but their relationship sours. Stathis then moves in with Tatiana, the daughter of Hollywood royalty, and becomes caught up in her life of clubs and drugs. He also finds himself increasingly at odds with Andrea, his boss and nemesis. At the end of the novel, he is booked on a flight prepared to make amends on his journey, and to look for a new direction for his life. Pappos is himself a Greek-born management consultant, and his personal experiences seem to inform this first novel, which has plenty of storytelling verve to keep readers engaged.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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"I'm homeless, but in First Class."

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