{"product_id":"9781443434874","title":"Station Eleven","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Emily St. John Mandel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOW A MAJOR TV SERIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Toronto Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the Sunburst Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Baileys Prize and for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne snowy night, a famous Hollywood actor dies onstage during a production of \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 Travelling Symphony caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame and the beauty of the world as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003eDeeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac. . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn’t have put it down for anything.\u003cbr\u003eA novel that carries a magnificent depth. . . . It’s a sweeping look at where we are, how we got here and where we might go. While her previous novels are cracking good reads, this is her best yet.\u003cbr\u003eGracefully written and suspenseful. . . . Its evocation of the collapse of our civilization is powerful.\u003cbr\u003eIt’s hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOLA Evergreen Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781443434874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41089212285134,"sku":"9781443434874","price":16.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781443434874.jpg?v=1649047034","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781443434874","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}