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From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.'Utterly absorbing, astonishingly inventive, and richly imagined. Dominic Smith is a wizard.'Andrea Barrett, National Book Award Winner and author of ArchangelFrom the award-winning author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse.Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey--America's first movie town--and on 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

Author

Smith, Dominic, 1971- author

Publisher

Sydney: Allen & Unwin

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911630289

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction