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Language English Pages 272 pp Dewey Decimal 813/.6 22 Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt OCLC 85822630 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Publication date 2008 ISBN 978-0-618-80112-1 Originally published 2008 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Similar Mr Splitfoot, The seas, Wizard: the Life and Times of, The Dark Dark: Stories, A Mercy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Invention of Everything Else is a novel written by American author Samantha Hunt, published in 2008. The novel presents a fictionalized account of the last days in the life of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American electrical engineer. Other fictionalized versions of historical characters include Thomas Edison (a rival), George Westinghouse, and Mark Twain. Tesla is the novel's protagonist along with a chambermaid named Louisa with whom he shares some common interests including science and pigeons. Much of the book takes place in the New Yorker Hotel. The book also includes elements of science fiction, namely time travel.
The author, Samantha Hunt, received a National Book Foundation award for authors under 35, for her previous novel, The Seas. The Invention of Everything Else was shortlisted for an award from Believer magazine and shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She won the Bard Fiction Prize for 2010.