THE FRONT OF HOUSE
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THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 1
4 parts · 15 h 29 min
London, Paris and the Swiss valleys, 1850 to 1918. A herdsman's son from the Valais learns hotel keeping in the season towns of the Alps and the Riviera, and in 1890 is handed the management of a new London hotel that Richard D'Oyly Carte has built with the money the Gilbert and Sullivan operas made him.
THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 2
4 parts · 16 h 14 min
New Mexico, Texas, Chicago and New York, 1887 to 1979. A storekeeper's son who grew up putting travelers into rooms behind his father's counter works out the thing that governs the whole trade: a night that goes unsold is gone, and a hotel that cannot sell its nights cannot pay the mortgage that built it.
THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 4 min
Toronto, 1931 to 2007.
THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 51 min
Florida, 1878 to 1913. Henry Flagler arrives in St. Augustine a rich man with nothing left to do and finds a state with no roads, no season, and almost nobody in it. So he builds the demand.
THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 5
4 parts · 16 h 46 min
Fresno and Las Vegas, 1917 to 1993. An Armenian immigrants' son who left school in the eighth grade and learned to fly by trading barn work for lessons ferries bombers over the North Atlantic, sells a charter airline, and buys eighty acres of Nevada scrub across from the Flamingo.
THE FRONT OF HOUSE Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 23 min
Dallas, Memphis, Amsterdam and every place with a front desk, 1958 to 2024. A hotel sells a night, and at midnight the nights it did not sell are gone.