Station Eleven [electronic resource]
Mandel, Emily St. John2014
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'BEST NOVEL. The big one . . . stands above all the others . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones. The New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?
Main title:
Station Eleven [electronic resource] / Emily St. John Mandel
Author:
Mandel, Emily St. John, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Picador Collection
Biography/History:
Emily St. John Mandel was born in Canada and studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Her previous novels are Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet and Station Eleven. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
ISBN:
9781447269007
Language:
English
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BRN:
381931