Completely original, one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I've read in years

Dave Eggers

Samantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh, original voice... a fantastical love story... literary gold... It should appeal to fans of <i>The Time Traveller's Wife</i> and Donna Tartt

Sunday Express

Both intelligent and compassionate... admirably ambitious... beautifully conjured

Daily Telegraph

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A beguiling mix of love, death, pigeons and time travel, it's a gem of a story about the power of imagination...An ingenious work of historical fiction

Marie Claire

Samantha Hunt's fantasy comes closer than any biography to solving the riddle of Tesla's commercial and personal failings...<i> The Invention of Everything Else</i> is perfect for nights spent in the wrong hotel, once your travel plans have, as usual, gone subtly awry

New Scientist

Hunt presents a convincing portrayal of youthful confusion... [Her] gray, Chekhovian moments mark Hunt as a writer to watch

Time Out New York

Samantha Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction

The New Yorker

Dazzling

Vanity Fair

A brilliant evocation of the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla

Guardian

Remarkable... Hunt wears her historical and scientific learning lightly

Financial Times

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. 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...

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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.

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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.

Product details

ISBN
9780099524007
Published
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Weight
256 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
368

Author

Biographical note

Samantha Hunt's fiction has been published in the New Yorker and McSweeney's and she is also author of the novel, The Seas. 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.