The Invention of Everything Else
Author(s): Samantha Hunt
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century. "The Invention of Everything Else" charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family.
General Information
- :
- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.251
- : 02 April 2009
- : United Kingdom
- : 12 September 2023
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Samantha Hunt
- : Paperback
- : 6-Sep
- : 813.6
- : 368
More About The Product
The Invention of Everything Else is a tremendously powerful and moving exploration of human loneliness and isolation, and the opposing powers of emotional and scientific imagination.
Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.
Samantha Hunt's fiction has been published in the New Yorker and McSweeney's and she has written one previous novel. She received the '5 under 35' award from the American National Book Foundation in 2006 and currently teaches writing and bookmaking at the Pratt Institute.
