Station Eleven /
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- , author.
Station Eleven / Station 11 Emily St. John Mandel. - Large print edition. - Farmington Hills, Mich., Large Print Press, 2015, c2014. - 555 pages ; 22 cm
A darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. 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 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.
Locus Award nominee, 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2015 National Book Award Finalist, 2014
9781594138829 1594138826
2014029847
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Fiction.
Actors and actresses--Fiction.
Civilization--Fiction.
End of the world--Fiction.
Epidemics--Fiction.
Traveling theater--Fiction.
Viruses--Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.)--Fiction.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic.
Canadian fiction.
Authors, Canadian.
F MAN
Station Eleven / Station 11 Emily St. John Mandel. - Large print edition. - Farmington Hills, Mich., Large Print Press, 2015, c2014. - 555 pages ; 22 cm
A darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. 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 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.
Locus Award nominee, 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2015 National Book Award Finalist, 2014
9781594138829 1594138826
2014029847
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Fiction.
Actors and actresses--Fiction.
Civilization--Fiction.
End of the world--Fiction.
Epidemics--Fiction.
Traveling theater--Fiction.
Viruses--Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.)--Fiction.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic.
Canadian fiction.
Authors, Canadian.
F MAN