Bibliograph

Station eleven, a novel, Emily St. John Mandel

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Station eleven, a novel, Emily St. John Mandel

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Station eleven

Oclc number

991688817

Responsibility statement

Emily St. John Mandel

Sub title

a novel

Summary

On stage during a snowstorm King Lear collapses, and the actor playing him, Hollywood star Arthur Leander, never gets up. Young Kirsten Raymonde, child actress, watches from the wings as Arthur dies. A former paparazzo-turned-EMT in the audience tries to save him, leaving to discover the early stages of a fast-spreading flu have descended on the city and the world. Arthur's former wife reflects on their time together and the graphic novel that is her great work of art. Fifteen years after Arthur's death, the Traveling Symphony tours the Great Lakes region of a sparsely populated, greatly altered United States. Time is marked as before and after the flu, and lifelike the remnants of civilizationis still ever-fragile. An actress with the company, Kirsten bears an inscription from "Star Trek" on her arm "Because survival is insufficient" that is echoed on a Symphony caravan. In the town of St. Deborah by the Water, the Traveling Symphony provokes a local tyrant, a crisis that follows them onto the road

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Station 11

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