The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Full of vivid imagery, sounds, memories, and dreams, this novel is a sweet story of just how normal it is to be different.Boston Globe
From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strange man who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-third floor, she is determined to befriend him. Unbeknownst to Louisa, he is Nikola Tesla inventor of AC electricity and wireless communication and he is living out his last days at the Hotel New Yorker. Winning his attention through a shared love of pigeons, she eventually uncovers the story of Tesla's life as a Serbian immigrant and a visionary genius: as a boy he built engines powered by June bugs, as a man he dreamed of pulling electricity from the sky. The mystery deepens when Louisa reunites with an enigmatic former classmate and faces the loss of her father as he attempts to travel to the past to meet up with his beloved wife. Before the week is out, Louisa must come to terms with her own understanding of love, death, and the power of invention.
Remarkable . . . It is a rare thing for a writer to conjure belief and true understanding, but with The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt has accomplished exactly that.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dazzling.
Vanity Fair
Ingenious.
Marie Claire
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Samantha Hunt is the author of the acclaimed first novel, The Seas, which in 2006 won a National Book Foundation award for writers under thirty-five. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker and McSweeney's. She lives in New York.
Samantha Hunt is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer whose work has appeared in journals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Tin House, A Public Space, and others. Her novels The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else, and Splitfoot have all gained critical acclaim. She currently resides in upstate New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780618801121 |
| ISBN 10 | 061880112X |
| Title | The Invention of Everything Else |
| Author | Samantha Hunt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2008-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 257 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2009 |
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