The Invention of Everything Else (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547085777)

New York City thrums with energy, wonder, and possibility in this magical novel about the life of Nikola Tesla.

It is 1943, and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Louisa, a young maid at the hotel determined to befriend him, wins his attention through a shared love of pigeons; with her we hear his tragic and tremendous life story unfold. Meanwhile, Louisa discovers that her father--and her handsome, enigmatic love interest, Arthur Vaughan--are on an unlikely mission to travel back in time and find his beloved late wife. A masterful hybrid of history, biography, and science fiction, The Invention of Everything Else is an absorbing story about love and death and a wonderfully imagined homage to one of history's most visionary scientists.

Author: Samantha Hunt
ISBN-10: 054708577X
ISBN-13: 9780547085777
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.34w x 0.65d
Award: Bard Fiction Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2009 pg. 20