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The lonely hearts hotel : a novel / Heather O'Neill.

By:

O'Neill, Heather

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : River Head Books , c2017Description: 389 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780735213739 (hardcover)

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DDC classification:

FIC ONE

LOC classification:

PR9199.4.O64 L66 2017

Summary: 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. 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. 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. 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--by the Publisher.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ONE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016871

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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. 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. 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. 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--by the Publisher.

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