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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Woman in the Lobby
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'Violet Armengard never thinks of her extraordinary beauty as anything other than a nuisance. That is until she ends up broke and alone in Paris, discarded by both her husband and the tennis star she sleeps with in an attempt to ease the hurt of her disastrous marriage. Through a series of chance encounters in hotel lobbies, Violet finds herself an object of interest to men rich enough to know the price of everything, including the privilege of bedding supremely beautiful women. As her addiction to grand hotels and haute couture takes hold, she convinces herself that she is only doing what women have done for millennia - trading sex for life's little luxuries. But then she meets Florin, a man with an unknowable past who leads her further into a world where human feeling is a negotiable commodity and sex is as much about power as it is pleasure. Brilliantly observed and darkly erotic, The Woman in the Lobby is a provocative and compulsively readable novel about the intriguing possibilities of separating sex and love.' (Publisher's blurb.)

Notes

  • Dedication: for Ramona.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2008 .
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      Extent: 440p.
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      • Published January 1st 2008
      ISBN: 9780670042951 (pbk.)
    • Hawthorn, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2009 .
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      Extent: 442p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 2009
      ISBN: 9780143003335, 014300333X

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Works about this Work

Fiction in Brief Rebecca Starford , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
Books Fiction Elli Housden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 June 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 May-1 June 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
When the Story Is the Magnet Juliette Hughes , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 May 2008; (p. 23)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel ; Nocturne : A Novel Diane Armstrong , 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries Wendy James , 2008 single work novel
[Review] The Woman in the Lobby Sharon Athanasos , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April/May vol. 87 no. 8 2008; (p. 35)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
[Review] The Woman in the Lobby Sharon Athanasos , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April/May vol. 87 no. 8 2008; (p. 35)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
When the Story Is the Magnet Juliette Hughes , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 May 2008; (p. 23)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel ; Nocturne : A Novel Diane Armstrong , 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries Wendy James , 2008 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 May-1 June 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
Books Fiction Elli Housden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 June 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
Fiction in Brief Rebecca Starford , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of The Woman in the Lobby Lee Tulloch , 2008 single work novel
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