Author: dominicsmith
A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love. For more than thirty years, 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 … of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film history student comes…
In this New York Times bestseller, two women’s stories intersect across centuries when a young art student agrees to forge a unique painting from 17th-century Amsterdam. “A beautiful, patient, and timeless book” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).