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(0)Dominic Smith
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
470 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--