The electric hotel
Smith, Dominic, 1971-2019
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For nearly half a century, 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 Luminiere brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging 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 to interview Claude about The Electric Hotel - the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose - the past comes surging back.
Main title:
The electric hotel / Dominic Smith.
Author:
Smith, Dominic, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Allen & Unwin, 2019.
Collation:
449 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781911630289 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3619.M5815
Local class:
AF
Language:
English
BRN:
2515637
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