Description
| Product ID: | 9781529083415 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | Station Eleven |
| Authors: | Author: Emily St. John Mandel |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Science fiction, USA, Canada |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. <p><b>A dreamily atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's <i>Station Eleven</i> is now an HBO Max original TV series.</b><br><br><i>What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.</i><br><br>One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again.<br><br>Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.<br><br>If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?<br><br><b>The <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller<br>Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award<br>Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction<br>National Book Awards Finalist<br>PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist</b><br><br><b><i>Station Eleven</i> is part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-17 |