Format:
Book
Author:
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- author.
Title:
Station eleven / Emily St. John Mandel.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]
©2014
Description:
333 pages ; 22 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Traveling theater -- Fiction.
Actors -- Fiction.
Epidemics -- Fiction.
Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Other Title:
Station 11
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi Book" -- Title verso page.
"A novel" -- Front jacket cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2015.
Toronto Book Award, 2015.
LCCN:
2014003560
ISBN:
9780804172448
0804172447
9781447268963
1447268962
9781447268970
1447268970
9780385353304
0385353308
Other Number:
966212904
System Availability:
7
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
7
Control Number:
946528
Call Number:
MANDEL
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
5
# System items in:
5