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The invention of everything else

Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship--based on a mutual fascination with pigeons--with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunt, Samantha
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Subjects:	Tesla, Nikola, > 1856-1943 > Fiction. Hotel cleaning personnel > Fiction. Electrical engineers > Fiction. Inventors > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Biographical fiction > New York. Love stories > New York.
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Summary:	Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship--based on a mutual fascination with pigeons--with the hotel's most famous resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days.
Physical Description:	257 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257).
ISBN:	9780618801121 061880112X
Author Notes:	Samantha Hunt's novel about Nikola Tesla, The Invention of Everything Else was a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Seas , a twisted tale of mermaids, won the National Book Foundation's Five under Thirty-five prize. She lives in upstate New York.