The Invention of Everything Else - Softcover
Brought together by a mutual fascination with pigeons, Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship with the hotel's most famous and unusual resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days. Simultaneous.
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"You hold in your hands an important, fun, educational, magic read." -- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng
"Full of vivid imagery, sounds, memories...this novel is a sweet story of just how normal it is to be different."
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"Oddly charming and pleasantly peculiar, Hunt's novel offers a unique perspective on hope and imagining life's possibilities."
"Marvelous...one wishes these scenes would never end...[it] takes its readers back to a kindler, gentler New York." - LA Weekly
"[Hunt's] novel might be 2008's 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics'...soulful and scientific at the same time." - Velocity Weekly
"[INVENTION is] a smart, colorful novel about aspiration and wish fulfillment in a world...engineers can't control." - The Believer
Review:
"Hunt (The Seas) delivers a breathtaking novel that is both difficult to classify and impossible to ignore."
"You hold in your hands an important, fun, educational, magic read." -- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng
"Full of vivid imagery, sounds, memories...this novel is a sweet story of just how normal it is to be different."
"Hunt's fascination with language is unmistakable, resulting in beautiful, intimate observations . . . elegant, inspired."
"A highwire performance by a soulful and wildly intelligent writer." -- Rene Steinke, author of the NBA-nominated Holy Skirts
"Oddly charming and pleasantly peculiar, Hunt's novel offers a unique perspective on hope and imagining life's possibilities."
"Marvelous...one wishes these scenes would never end...[it] takes its readers back to a kindler, gentler New York." - LA Weekly
"[Hunt's] novel might be 2008's 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics'...soulful and scientific at the same time." - Velocity Weekly
"[INVENTION is] a smart, colorful novel about aspiration and wish fulfillment in a world...engineers can't control." - The Believer
`a fascinating blend of fact, fiction, history and... science fiction surrounding the weird and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla'
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846551935
- ISBN 13 9781846551932
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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