The Electric Hotel Paperback / softback
by Dominic Smith
Paperback / softback
Description
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 Lumière 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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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:07/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781911630296
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:464 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:07/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781911630296
