{"product_id":"dominic-smith-the-electric-hotel-9781911630296","title":"The Electric Hotel","description":"From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America's first movie town - and the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man's doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder. For nearly half a century, 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 Lumière brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days taking photographs of 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 and reels in desperate need of restoration, and 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 movie-making, a luminous romance and a whirlwind trip through the heady, endlessly inventive days of early cinema.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53606237339990,"sku":"9781911630296-V","price":3.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53420663767382,"sku":"9781911630296-G","price":1.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781911630296_1_0de04b16-7792-41e4-8801-80782a6e7970.jpg?v=1778203300","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dominic-smith-the-electric-hotel-9781911630296","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}