TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandel,Emily StJohn
TI  - Station Eleven
SN  - 9781594138829
U1  - F MAN 23
PY  - 2015///, c2014
CY  - Farmington Hills, Mich.
PB  - Large Print Press
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Actors and actresses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Civilization
KW  - End of the world
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Traveling theater
KW  - Viruses
KW  - Toronto (Ont.)
KW  - FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Canadian fiction
KW  - Authors, Canadian
N2  - A darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. 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 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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