The Lonely Hearts Hotel
- Kategoria:
- powieść historyczna
- Wydawnictwo:
- Riverhead Books
- Data wydania:
- 2017-02-07
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2017-02-07
- Liczba stron:
- 391
- Czas czytania
- 6 godz. 31 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0735213739
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.
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I love this story. It's a "romance" on the cover, but if that's not for You, don't sign it off immediately. They're barely together in this book. It's a story of growing up in the hardest of conditions, overcoming them and growing up on your own. Becoming your own person. In spite of everything. It can also be considered pretty dark to some people, so beware of trigger warnings like drug use, prostitution, rape and general abuse. But it's also beautiful because of how art focused it is. It's about creative, beautiful people who refuse to give up and it's so worth a read!
I love this story. It's a "romance" on the cover, but if that's not for You, don't sign it off immediately. They're barely together in this book. It's a story of growing up in the hardest of conditions, overcoming them and growing up on your own. Becoming your own person. In spite of everything. It can also be considered pretty dark to some people, so beware of trigger...
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