Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts. Mandel has stated in interviews that The Glass Hotel is a ghost story at the intersection of two events. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the. We get a young man named Paul screwing up first at university and then at a job at a remote British Columbia. Knopf, 26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-4-3 Mandel’s wonderful novel (after Station Eleven) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache. John Mandel (Author), Dylan Moore (Reader) 12,972 ratings Editors pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Like Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel is a hash of temporal crosscutting. Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. John Mandel The Glass Hotel: A novel Audio CD Unabridged, Maby Emily St. John and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available. The extraordinary new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven. : The Glass Hotel: A Novel (9781443455732) by Mandel, Emily St.

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