| From The Publisher* | 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.
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 theatre troupe known as the Travelling 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. |
| Review Quote* | "Station Eleven is a firework of a novel. Elegantly constructed and packed with explosive beauty, it's full of life and humanity and the aftershock of memory."
-Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls () |
| Biographical Note | EMILY ST. JOHN MANDELwas born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia. She studied dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York.
Her previous novels areThe Lola Quartet, which was the #1 Indie Next pick for May 2012;Last Night in Montreal(a June 2009 Indie Next pick and a finalist forForeWord Magazine's 2009 Book of the Year); andThe Singer's Gun(winner of an Indie Bookseller's Choice Award, #1 Indie Next pick for May 2010, long-listed for both The Morning News' 2011 Tournament of Books and the 2011 Spinetingler Awards).
She is a staff writer forThe Millions. Her essays and short stories have been included in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is married and lives in Brooklyn.
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