About Station Eleven
Set in the days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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.
- Complete Title: Station Eleven
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 333
- Publication Time: September 9, 2014
- Publisher: Knopf
- ISBN: 0385353308
- ISBN13: 9780385353304
About Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York.
She is the author of five novels, including The Glass Hotel (spring 2020) and Station Eleven (2014.) Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 34 languages. She lives in NYC with her husband and daughter.
Reviews Station Eleven
Emily Mandel
”Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”When the Georgia Flu sweeps around the world killing 99.6% of the population there were suddenly… a lot of people… to long for. The people miss…
Jeffrey Keeten
For me, Station Eleven falls squarely into the category of extremely dull books that seem to be highly-rated by everyone else.The premise totally intrigued me. You put words like pandemic and apocalyp…
Yun
“Survival is insufficient”.Star Trek: VoyagerNovels whose premise strips away the world as we know it can be tricky territory. They can be innately dramatic, overwrought, didactic and riddled with Big…
Melanie
I don’t know if you will like this book. It’s a very particular kind of book done very well, which is not remotely a promise that you will like it. The jacket copy is not untrue, but it also isn’t hel…
Maggie Stiefvater
Adult speculative fictionEven since reading The Stand by Stephen King when I was a kid, I’ve had a soft spot for apocalyptic plagues that wipe out humanity. Er . . . I mean in fiction, of course. S…
Rick Riordan
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“The thing with the new world is it’s just horrifically short on elegance.”
Everyone loved this book. I’m talking EVERYONE. I h…
Kelly (and the Book Boar)
Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.on the night the world begins to end, a man has a…
karen
This book is so beautiful.I am not even talking about the cover – although actually, let’s take a second to talk about the cover. LOOK AT THIS COVER! Are you seeing it? So lovely. So so pretty. Looo…
emma
I’ve been meaning to read this book for years, and now that I finally did, I feel the sort of acute disappointment that comes from wanting something for so long that the eventual achievement of it i…