Station Eleven. Signed Numbered First Printing.

St. John Mandel, Emily

ISBN 10: 1447268962 / ISBN 13: 9781447268963

Published by Picador and Goldsboro Books, London, England, 2014

About this Item

One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. First printing. Bound in boards with dust jacket. Unmarked.

Seller Inventory # M25-Of-CL-S3-22

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Station Eleven. Signed Numbered First Printing.
• Publisher: Picador and Goldsboro Books, London, England
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447268962
• ISBN 13: 9781447268963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

1st UK trade hardback. NOT the Signed limited ed. With a fine dust jacket in a Mylar cover

Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2014: A flight from Russia lands in middle America, its passengers carrying a virus that explodes “like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth.” In a blink, the world as we know it collapses. “No more ballgames played under floodlights,” Emily St. John Mandel writes in this smart and sober homage to life’s smaller pleasures, brutally erased by an apocalypse. “No more trains running under the surface of cities ... No more cities ... No more Internet ... No more avatars.” Survivors become scavengers, roaming the ravaged landscape or clustering in pocket settlements, some of them welcoming, some dangerous. What’s touching about the world of Station Eleven is its ode to what survived, in particular the music and plays performed for wasteland communities by a roving Shakespeare troupe, the Traveling Symphony, whose members form a wounded family of sorts. The story shifts deftly between the fraught post-apocalyptic world and, twenty years earlier, just before the apocalypse, the death of a famous actor, which has a rippling effect across the decades. It’s heartbreaking to watch the troupe strive for more than mere survival. At once terrible and tender, dark and hopeful, Station Eleven is a tragically beautiful novel that both mourns and mocks the things we cherish. –Neal Thompson