Book
Books to go bag 171 : station eleven : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel.
Record details
- ISBN: 0804172447
- ISBN: 9780804172448
- Physical Description: 10 books + 1 study guide in bag.
- Edition: First Vintage Book edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Actors > Fiction. Shakespearean actors and actresses > Fiction. Symphonies > Fiction. Traveling theater > Fiction. Suspense fiction. Science fiction. Dystopias. |
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Summary:
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside as life disintegrates outside. This 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.