An edition of The Lonely Hearts Hotel (2017)

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An edition of The Lonely Hearts Hotel (2017)

Lonely Hearts Hotel

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With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one's origins. It might also take true love.Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes - after years of searching and desperate poverty - the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same.With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.

Dazzling, whimsical, dark, and affecting. The Lonely Hearts Hotel is an unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical, there is no escaping its spell.

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Publisher
Quercus
Language
English

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Cover of: Lonely Hearts Hotel
Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel
2019, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel
Jan 02, 2018, Riverhead Books
paperback
Cover of: Lonely Hearts Hotel
Lonely Hearts Hotel
2018, Quercus
in English
Cover of: Lonely Hearts Hotel
Lonely Hearts Hotel
2017, Quercus Publishing
in English
Cover of: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
The Lonely Hearts Hotel: a novel
2017
sound recording : in English - Unabridged.

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Library of Congress
PR9199.4.O64

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Pagination
336
Weight
0.280

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35538489M
ISBN 13
9781849163378

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