{"product_id":"the-electric-hotel","title":"Dominic Smith: The Electric Hotel [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos\u003c\/i\u003e comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Electric Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 Lumiere 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Hotel \u003c\/i\u003e- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Electric Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Dominic","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46555964834131,"sku":"9781911630289","price":18.75,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-dominic-dominic-smith-the-electric-hotel-2019-hardback-9781911630289-57572739383635.jpg?v=1727468773","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-electric-hotel","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}