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Orphaned prodigies dream amidst Depression-era Montreal.
"The Lonely Hearts Hotel" is a mesmerizing tale of resilience and the enduring power of dreams. Set against the gritty backdrop of the Great Depression, Heather O’Neill’s story of Pierrot and Rose is one of beauty and hardship. With it's magical circus elements and a poignant love story, it's a novel that will appeal to those who relish in the blend of reality with the whimsical allure of a fairy tale. This book is perfect for readers who are looking for an escape into a world where love is powerful and dreams can triumph over adversity.
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ISBN: 9780735213739
Authors:
Heather O'Neill
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2017-02-07
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.8
(rated by 19091 readers)
Description
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
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Orphaned prodigies dream amidst Depression-era Montreal.
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