The glass hotel
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-, author2020 - 2021
Hotel bartender Vincent sets out on a romance with the New York financier who owns the Vancouver Island hotel, on the same day that a mysterious and menacing message is scrawled on the hotel's wall. The events that ensue from this day present a broad spectacle of crime, money and conspiracy. The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of ThronesVincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: `Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
Main title:
The glass hotel
Creator:
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-, author
Date Published:
2020 - 2021
Language:
English
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