The Electric Hotel

The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey— America’s first movie town—and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder.

“As fresh and deliciously strange as the first days of film-making it so dazzlingly brings to life, The Electric Hotel is utterly absorbing, astonishingly inventive, and richly imagined. Dominic Smith is a wizard”
ANDREA BARRETT
National Book Award Winner and author of Archangel

“Radiant... a vital and highly entertaining work about the act of creation, and about what it means to pick up and move on after you’ve lost everything.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES