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The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt
Houghton Mifflin
February 2008
On Sale: February 7, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 061880112X
EAN: 9780618801121
Hardcover
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Fiction
A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the
eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in
the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days
From the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New
Yorkers most famous resident on New Years Day 1943, Louisa
-- obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the
guests -- is determined to befriend this strange man. As
Louisa discovers their shared affinity for pigeons, she also
begins to piece together Teslas extraordinary story of life
as an immigrant, a genius, and a halfhearted capitalist.
Meanwhile, Louisa-faced with her fathers imminent departure
in a time machine to reunite with his late wife, and
pleasantly unsettled by the arrival in her life of a
mysterious mechanic (perhaps from the future) named Arthur
-- begins to suspect that she has understood something about
the relationship of love and invention that Tesla, for all
his brilliance, never did. The Invention of Everything Else
luminously resurrects one of the greatest scientists of all
time, Nikola Tesla, while magically transporting us -- la
Steven Millhauser and Michael Chabon -- to an early
twentieth-century New York City thrumming with energy,
wonder, and possibility.
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