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The Electric Hotel

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By (author): Dominic Smith

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.

The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America''''s first movie town - and the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man''''s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.

For nearly half a century, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films, who started out as a concession agent for the Lumiere brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days taking photographs of Sunset Boulevard. But when a film-history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel - the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose - the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude''''s memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.

The Electric Hotel is a portrait of a man entranced by the magic of movie-making, a luminous romance and a whirlwind trip through the heady, endlessly inventive days of early cinema.

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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 445g
  • Dimensions: 145 x 220mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • ISBN13: 9781911630289

About Dominic Smith

Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney Australia and now lives in Seattle Washington. He''''s the author of the novels The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Bright and Distant Shores The Beautiful Miscellaneous and The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre. His writing has appeared in the New York Times the Atlantic Texas Monthly and the Australian. He has been a recipient of literature grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts. He teaches writing in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

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