{"product_id":"the-lonely-hearts-hotel-paperback","title":"The Lonely Hearts Hotel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE BOSTON GLOBE \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWhen We Lost Our Heads\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Hearts Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeparated 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather O'Neill is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and essayist. \u003ci\u003eLullabies for Little Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut novel, was published in 2006 to international critical acclaim and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Montreal, O'Neill lives there today with her daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42175579127943,"sku":"9780735213746","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2a58ad7a3dfec3bf6d98b91ec16dfe21.webp?v=1733382621","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-lonely-hearts-hotel-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}