Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
X
PageMenu- Searching:-
Page content

Catalogue Display

The Electric Hotel / Dominic Smith ; read by Edoardo Ballerini.

The Electric Hotel / Dominic Smith ; read by Edoardo Ballerini.
Electric Hotel /
Read by Edoardo Ballerini. Los Angeles, 1962: Silent filmmaker Claude Ballard's daily routine is interrupted by an aspiring film student, whose inquiries about Claude's famous lost film, The Electric Hotel sparks memories of a near-forgotten era. Paris, 1895: 20-year-old Claude Ballard interviews for a job as a 'concession agent' for the Lumiere Brothers. With a CV, such that it is, that contains film of his sister's dying breaths, it's clear how much Claude will put at stake to realise his dreams. When Claude meets the legendary actress, Sabine Montrose, during the last hours of her 40th birthday in her Manhattan hotel room, inspiration strikes and his fate is sealed. 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 Electric 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.

Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
HCD/SMIT
 Audio CD   Home Library . On Hold-3 .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 624997
. Catalogue Record 624997 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 624997 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
Record Number 624997
ISBN 9780655609865
Author Smith, Dominic author.
Title The Electric Hotel / Dominic Smith ; read by Edoardo Ballerini.
Edition Unabridged.
Publication details Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2019
Pagination etc. 10 audio discs (CD) (11 hr., 25 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Performer note Read by Edoardo Ballerini.
Summary Note Los Angeles, 1962: Silent filmmaker Claude Ballard's daily routine is interrupted by an aspiring film student, whose inquiries about Claude's famous lost film, The Electric Hotel sparks memories of a near-forgotten era. Paris, 1895: 20-year-old Claude Ballard interviews for a job as a 'concession agent' for the Lumiere Brothers. With a CV, such that it is, that contains film of his sister's dying breaths, it's clear how much Claude will put at stake to realise his dreams. When Claude meets the legendary actress, Sabine Montrose, during the last hours of her 40th birthday in her Manhattan hotel room, inspiration strikes and his fate is sealed. 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 Electric 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.
Subject General fiction
Australia fiction
Audiobooks
Added Entry Ballerini, Edoardo narrator.
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
Authors:
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 624997
.
Catalogue Information 624997 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 624997 Top of page .

Reviews


This item has not been rated.    Add a Review and/or Rating624997