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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.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
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...
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.