The Invention of Everything Else
- ISBN-10
- 054708577X
- ISBN-13
- 9780547085777
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Samantha Hunt
Description
Brought together by a mutual fascination with pigeons, Louisa, a young chambermaid at the Hotel New Yorker, forms an unlikely friendship with the hotel's most famous and unusual resident, eccentric and pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla, during his final days. Reprint.
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