The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." â€“Â The Washington Post

A spellbinding story about two gifted orphans â€“Â Â in love with each other since they can rememberÂ â€“Â whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.Â

The Lonely Hearts HotelÂ 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 oneâ€™s origins. It might also take true love.

Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. 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.Â

Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the cityâ€™s underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes â€“Â after years of searching and desperate poverty â€“Â the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and theyâ€™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 Oâ€™NeillÂ enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	735213747
Color	Black
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Height	8
Length	5.12
Weight	0.70106999316
Width	1
ReleaseDate	2018-01-02
NumberOfItems	1

The Lonely Hearts Hotel: A Novel

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