The Last Days of Night

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Zusatztext ‘One theme! of course! is the exhilaration that arises from connecting science to invention. I found that theme played out! in a manner that was resonant for our own times! in Graham Moore’s historical novel The Last Days of Night ' Informationen zum Autor Graham Moore is a New York Times bestselling novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter. His screenplay for The Imitation Game won the Oscar in 2015. His first novel! The Sherlockian! was published in 16 countries and translated into 13 languages. Graham was born in Chicago and now lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller based on the famous 'War of the Currents' fought between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. In New York! in the late 1880s! the miracle of electric light is still in its infancy and untold riches and glory await the man who can power the nation with this new technology. Thomas Edison has won the race to the patent office for his electric light bulb and is now suing his one remaining rival! George Westinghouse! for infringement for the unheard-of sum of a billion dollars. To defend himself! Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: he hires untested 26-year-old Paul Cravath who is fresh out of law school. The task facing Cravath is truly daunting - win. And the stakes are immense: the winner of the case will illuminate America. 'If Paul could not break the patent claim! Thomas Edison would have a monopoly on light itself...' Soon to be a major film starring Eddie Redmayne! Zusammenfassung NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • A thrilling novel based on actual events! about the nature of genius! the cost of ambition! and the battle to electrify America—from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of  The Imitation Game  and author of  The Sherlockian SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE New York! 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets! but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath! fresh out of Columbia Law School! takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client! George Westinghouse! has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The task facing Cravath is truly daunting -- win. And the stakes are immense: the winner of the case will illuminate America. In obsessive pursuit of victory! Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla! an eccentric! brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison! and with Agnes Huntington! a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks! he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game! and no one is quite who they seem... Praise for  The Last Days of Night ‘Moore weaves a complex web. . . He conjures Gilded Age New York City so vividly! it feels like only yesterday’ Entertainment Weekly ‘A model of superior historical fiction . . . Graham Moore digs deep into long-forgotten facts to give us an exciting! sometimes astonishing story of two geniuses locked in a brutal battle to change the world. . .[A] brilliant journey into the past’ The Washington Post ‘Mesmerizing! clever! and absolutely crackling…a beautifully researched! endlessly entertaining novel that will leave you buzzing’ Gillian Flynn! author of  Gone Girl   ‘Part legal thriller! part tour of a magical time – the age of wonder – and once you’ve finished it! you’ll find it hard to return to the world of now’ Erik Larson! author...