The Invention of Everything Else

Description

Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant – and most neglected – inventors of the twentieth century. The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..

Description

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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• The Invention of Everything ElseHardcoverHoughton Mifflin2008-02-07
• The invention of everything elseHoughton Mifflin Co.2008-01-01
• Invention of Everything ElsePenguin Random House2008-01-01
• The invention of everything elseHarvill Secker2008-01-01
• The Invention of Everything ElseAudio CDBlackstone Audio Inc.2008-02-07
• The Invention of Everything ElseAudio CDBlackstone Audio Inc.2008-02-07