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The Electric Hotel

Af: Dominic Smith Engelsk Paperback

The Electric Hotel

Af: Dominic Smith Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 464
ISBN-13: 9781911630296
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1911630296
Udg. Dato: 7 maj 2020
Længde: 39mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 7 maj 2020
Forfatter(e): Dominic Smith
Forfatter(e) Dominic Smith


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781911630296


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 464


Udgave


Længde 39mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 129mm


Udg. Dato 7 maj 2020


Oplagsdato 7 maj 2020


Forlag Atlantic Books

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