STATION ELEVEN

Mandel, Emily St. John

ISBN 10: 0385353308 / ISBN 13: 9780385353304

Published by Knopf, New York, 2014

About this Item

Inscribed first printing of this Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, adapted into the widely acclaimed HBO series of the same name. Set after the death of 99% of the world's population from a deadly outbreak of swine flu, Mandel's prescient novel follows a troupe of Shakespearean actors as they strive to find and create meaning in a fallen world. Despite its premise, however, an oddly uplifting book. The first printing is increasingly uncommon, especially signed. 8'' x 5.5''. Publisher's original quarter black cloth over mustard boards. In original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial jacket. [10], 333, [9] pages. Inscribed by Mandel on title page: "For Amanda / With best wishes / Emily St. John Mandel." Clean, sharp, bright, and tight throughout.

Seller Inventory # 50869

Bibliographic Details

• Title: STATION ELEVEN
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385353308
• ISBN 13: 9780385353304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition (stated).
• Condition: Fine in fine jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Genre Fiction
  • Lit

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Synopsis

This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.

About the Author

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.