1784 85ef4796-c883-4f30-b398-25c39929f52e Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel calibre (5.35.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 2014-09-08T23:00:00+00:00 <p><b>An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.</b><br><br>One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of <i>King Lear</i>. 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, <i>Station Eleven</i> tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral...</p> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 9780385353311 a3a327aa-5cf1-4668-80b4-0deda307c9df eng