Station Eleven
Title
:
Station Eleven
Personal Author EPSB
:
Emily St. John, Mandel
Summary
:
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 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.
Year Published
:
2014-2017
Physical Description
:
333 pages ; 23 cm
Subject
:
Epidemics -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Canadian fiction.
Summary
:
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 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.
ISBN
:
9780385353304
9781443434867
9781443434874
Publisher
:
New York : Knopf, 2014.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2014.
New York : Harper Perennial, 2017.
©2014
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Edmonton Christian High | FIC MAN | Book | 30905000123525 | Fiction |