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Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

Station eleven / Emily St. John Mandel. - London : Picador, 2014. - 333 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9781447268987

LCCN: 2014003560

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Actors--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Adventure fiction.
Science fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR9199.4.S727 / S73 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6