- Published: 1 May 2009
- ISBN: 9780099524007
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
The Invention of Everything Else
- Published: 1 May 2009
- ISBN: 9780099524007
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
Completely original, one of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I've read in years
Dave Eggers
Samantha Hunt's writing is free of affectation and carries surprising conviction
The New Yorker
Hunt presents a convincing portrayal of youthful confusion... [Her] gray, Chekhovian moments mark Hunt as a writer to watch
Time Out New York
Samantha Hunt's fantasy comes closer than any biography to solving the riddle of Tesla's commercial and personal failings... The Invention of Everything Else is perfect for nights spent in the wrong hotel, once your travel plans have, as usual, gone subtly awry
New Scientist
Hunt's deft blend of sf elements and romantic subplots may remind readers of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, while her prose style and attention to historical detail are on a par with Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Hunt's greatest triumph, however, lies in her depiction of Tesla, who wavers between genius and madness with carefully controlled charm.
Library Journal
Dazzling
Vanity Fair
Both intelligent and compassionate... admirably ambitious... beautifully conjured
Daily Telegraph
A beguiling mix of love, death, pigeons and time travel, it's a gem of a story about the power of imagination...An ingenious work of historical fiction
Marie Claire
A brilliant evocation of the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla
Guardian
Weird and wonderful debut novel
Red
A fantastical story that engages the heart and mind, as Hunt pays tribute to the power of invention, and the enduring strength of love
Psychologies
a fascinating blend of fact, fiction, history and dare I say, science fiction surrounding the weird and wonderful life of Nikola Tesla the acknowledged father of radio and AC electricity.
Dovegreyreader
her portrait of Tesla buzzes with vitality
Metro
This unusual novel skilfully interweaves the story of the eccentric inventor of radio and AC electricity with that of Louisa ... a compelling novel.
Emma Lee-Potter, Express
Remarkable... Hunt wears her historical and scientific learning lightly
Financial Times
Hunt has done a fine job of reanimating the dead and reawakening my curiosity about this odd, overlooked man... Hunt's prose is sylish and tasty and her observations wise and witty
Scotsman
Samantha Hunt is an exciting find - a fresh, original voice... a fantastical love story... literary gold... It should appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Donna Tartt
Sunday Express
Remarkable...Hunt wears her historical and scientific learning lightly
Financial Times
An ambitious conflation of fact and fiction
Literary Review
Samantha Hunt's fantasy comes closer than any biography to solving the riddle of Tesla's commercial and personal failings ... The Invention of Everything Else is perfect for nights spent in the wrong hotel, once your travel plans have, as usual, gone subtly awry
New Scientist
A sophisticated pastiche of science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, and historical anecdote....It all adds up to a precocious math of human marvel
Elle