Station eleven : a novel
- Author/Creator:
- Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
- Publication/Creation:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- First Edition.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Station eleven : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel
- Variant Titles:
- Station 11
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Actors--Fiction
Time travel--Fiction
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 333 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990035032410302486
- ISBN:
- 9780385353304 (hardback)
0385353308 (hardback) - OCLC Number:
- 866615101
- Barcode:
- 050000084061
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