Synopsis In Samantha Hunt's second novel, the aged and impoverished inventor Nikola Tesla befriends Walter, an eccentric night watchman at the New York Public Library. When the two stumble upon a time machine, they have an opportunity to right old wrongs, and revisit their long-dead loves.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Size | | Length: | 257 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Note 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.
Industry Reviews "Ungainly but beguiling....It fairly pulses with life." (03/23/2008)
"This is no novel-as-biopic, but a fictional wonderland comprising people who actually existed, and stuff that actually happened, and places that you can actually visit, made all the more gloriously real-seeming by Hunt's magical yarn-spinning." (Best of 2008 finalist) (02/01/2009)
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