Station eleven Emily St. John Mandel.
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TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books; 2015Description: 333 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804172448Subject(s): Actors -- Fiction | Time travel -- Fiction | Dystopias -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction. | Adventure fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PR9199.4.S727 | S83 2014Summary: One night an 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. The novel charts the 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.
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | MAND (Browse shelf) | Available | 35080 |
One night an 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. The novel charts the 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.
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