Station eleven : A novel
- Author/Creator:
- Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
- Publication/Creation:
- 2014
- Format:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Station eleven : A novel. Emily St. John Mandel
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- Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardAn audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life...
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Electronic reproduction.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936508493702486
- ISBN:
- 9780385353311 (electronic bk)
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