08134cam a2200469 4500 233496280 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385353311 0385353316 B00J1IQUYM Amazon 71756b04-eb6f-44d2-b2ea-6c92fbf44658 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1638062 OverDrive (Product ID) 239452 1638062 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven [Libby] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2447kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. "Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.". George R. R. Martin. HTML:"Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn't have put it down for anything.". Ann Patchett. HTML:"Emily St. John Mandel's fourth novel, Station Eleven, begins with a spectacular end. One night in a Toronto theater, onstage performing the role of King Lear, 51-year-old Arthur Leander has a fatal heart attack. There is barely time for people to absorb this shock when tragedy on a considerably vaster scale arrives in the form of a flu pandemic so lethal that, within weeks, most of the world's population has been killed . . . Mandel is an exuberant storyteller . . . Readers will be won over by her nimble interweaving of her characters' lives and fates . . . Station Eleven is as much a mystery as it is a post-apocalyptic tale . . . Mandel is especially good at planting clues and raising the kind of plot-thickening questions that keep the reader turning pages . . . Station Eleven offers comfort and hope to those who believe, or want to believe, that doomsday can be survived, that in spite of everything people will remain good at heart, and when they start building a new world they will want what was best about the old.". HTML:Sigrid Nunez, New York Times Book Review. HTML:"Last month, when the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards were announced, one stood out from the rest: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel . . . Station Eleven is set in a familiar genre universe, in which a pandemic has destroyed civilization. The twist--the thing that makes Station Eleven National Book Award material--is that the survivors are artists . . . It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment . . . Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture--"literary fiction" and "genre fiction." But those categories aren't really adequate to describe the book . . . It brings together these different fictional genres and the values--observation, feeling, erudition--to which they're linked. . . Instead of being compressed, it blossoms.". HTML:Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker. HTML:"Emily St. John Mandel's tender and lovely new novel, Station Eleven . . . miraculously reads like equal parts page-turner and poem . . . One of her great feats is that the story feels spun rather than plotted, with seamless shifts in time and characters. . . "Because survival is insufficient," reads a line taken from Star Trek spray painted on the Traveling Symphony's lead wagon. The genius of Mandel's fourth novel . . . is that she lives up to those words. This is not a story of crisis and survival. It's one of art and family and memory and community and the awful courage it takes to look upon the world with fresh and hopeful eyes.". HTML:Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly. "Spine-tingling . . . Ingenious . . . Ms. Mandel gives the book some extra drama by positioning some of her characters near the brink of self-discovery as disaster approaches. The plague hits so fast that it takes them all by surprise . . . Ms. Mandel is able to tap into the poignancy of lives cut short at a terrible time -- or, in one case, of a life that goes on long after wrongs could be righted.". HTML:Janet Maslin, The New York Times. HTML:"In Station Eleven , by Emily St. John Mandel, the Georgia Flu becomes airborne the night Arthur Leander dies during his performance as King Lear. Within months, all airplanes are grounded, cars run out of gas and electricity flickers out as most of the world's population dies. The details of Arthur's life before the flu and what happens afterward to his friends, wives and lovers create a surprisingly beautiful story of human relationships amid such devastation. Among the survivors are Kirsten, a child actor at the time of Arthur's death who lives with no memory of what happened to her the first year after the flu . . . A gorgeous retelling of Lear unfolds through Arthur's flashbacks and Kirsten's attempt. HTML:Nancy Hightower, The Washington Post. HTML:2014 National Book Award Finalist A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, 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 an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them. Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line from Star Trek: "Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in 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 pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Notable Books for Adults. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=71756b04-eb6f-44d2-b2ea-6c92fbf44658 https://samples.overdrive.com/station-eleven-71756b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/station-eleven-71756b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/station-eleven-71756b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)