Electric Hotel

A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.

For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the Lumi�re brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel--the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose--the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments in desperate need of restoration, as well as Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.

The Electric Hotel is a portrait of a man entranced by the magic of moviemaking, a luminous romance, and a whirlwind trip through early cinema. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

O opera de fictiune istorica a autorului bestseller-ului New York Times, Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel este o poveste fascinanta de arta si dragoste. De mai bine de treizeci de ani, Claude Ballard traieste la Hotelul Hollywood Knickerbocker. Pionier francez al filmelor mute, care a inceput ca agent de concesiune pentru fratii Lumi, inventatorii cinematografiei, Claude isi petrece acum zilele cautand ciuperci pe dealurile din Los Angeles si facand fotografii ale fugarilor si ale striplings de-a lungul Sunset Boulevard. .