The electric hotel, Dominic Smith
Type
Label
The electric hotel, Dominic Smith
Language
eng
Form of composition
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Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The electric hotel
Medium
compact disc
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
1089731942
Responsibility statement
Dominic Smith
Summary
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 Lumiere 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 hotel, the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose, the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
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