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Praise for Stephen Lewis and Hotel Kid
"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful...This is a very fine book--about a person, and a city, growing up."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Charming."--New York Times
"This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended."--Library Journal (starred review)
"The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel."--San Francisco Chronicle
"[T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's"--Kirkus Reviews
"This literary memoir is perfect for those who long for the way things were."--Publishers Weekly/
"A sweet, moving and sometimes hilarious memoir."--The Jewish Exponent
"A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era."--Bloomsbury Review
"Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. Hotel Kid pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups."--Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family
"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful...This is a very fine book about a person, and a city, growing up." Philadelphia Inquirer
"This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries." Library Journal (starred review)
"The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel." San Francisco Chronicle
A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taft, where his father, the best hotelman in New York, ruled a staff of Damon Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade.
The star of this memoir is Lewis's fast-talking, opinionated, imperious mother, who adapted so completely to hotel life that she rarely left the Taft. Evelyn Lewis rang the front desk when she wanted to make a telephone call, ordered all the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks. During the Depression, the tough kids from Hell's Kitchen who went to grade school with Stephen marveled at the lavish spreads his mother offered her friends at lunch every day, and later even his wealthy classmates at Horace Mann-Lincoln were impressed by the limitless hot fudge sundaes available to the Lewis boys.
Lewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In Hotel Kid, lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world.
"[T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's" Kirkus Reviews
"Charming." New York Times
"A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era." Bloomsbury Review
"Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. Hotel Kid pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups." Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family
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