Station eleven [electronic resource] : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2014.
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General Note: | Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 14, 2014). |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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Subject: | Actors > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. |
Genre: | Electronic books. Science fiction. |