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Station eleven : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0804172447
- ISBN: 9780804172448
- Physical Description: 333 pages.
- Edition: First Vintage Book edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader UG 6.5 16 16 174332 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Actors > Fiction. Shakespearean actors and actresses > Fiction. Symphonies > Fiction. Traveling theater > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Science fiction. Dystopias. |
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| Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | FIC MAN STA 2015 (Text) | 31001101795459 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 04/30/2024 |
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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.
