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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Timesbestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.

For more than thirty years, 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 foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotelthe lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrosethe past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of restoration, as well as Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.

The Electric

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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Timesbestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding... Read more

    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 6/4/2019 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780374146856, 978-0374146856
    ISBN10: 0374146853

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Timesbestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.

    For more than thirty years, 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 foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotelthe lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrosethe past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of restoration, as well as Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.

    The Electric

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