The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt

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The Invention of Everything Else revolves around the twin poles of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio and creator of AC electricity, a notoriously marginalised genius and Louisa, a highly sensitive and imaginative young woman who encounters Tesla at the end of his life. It is also a novel about a father and a daughter, a love story, a New York story and a literary mystery, woven around a biographically accurate portrayal of the scientist, whose wild eccentricities have made him a counter-culture icon and whose carelessness about patenting his ideas led to Edison and Marconi stealing them and making fortunes, while Tesla died in poverty…

Samantha Hunt

is the author of The Seas, and a winner of the new ‘5 under 35’ National Book Award. Her work has been published in the New Yorker and McSweeney’s. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where she studied science and English and teaches writing and bookmaking at Pratt Institute.

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