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The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel

By: Emily St John Mandel

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

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Format: Paperback

Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Mystery & Suspense

Page(s): 356

Published: March 2020

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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don't you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.

In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.

Emily St. John Mandel's four previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and has been translated into thirty-three languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

"Unerringly graceful. . . . A striking book that's every bit as powerful--and timely--as its predecessor. . . . A masterpiece." - NPR

"Flawlessly constructed." - The Boston Globe

"Heartbreakingly resonant." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Lyrical, hypnotic." - The Wall Street Journal

"A careful, damning study of the forms of disaster humanity brings down on itself." - Vulture

"A beguiling tale about skewed morals, reckless lives and necessary means of escape." - The Economist

"A wondrously entertaining novel." - Slate"A master in her prime . . . a marvel of intricacy from beginning to end." - Entertainment Weekly"Mandel's gift is to weave realism out of extremity. She plants her flag where the ordinary and the astonishing meet. . . . She is our bard of waking up in the wrong time line." - The New Yorker

"Richly satisfying. . . . Deeply imagined, philosophically profound." - The Atlantic

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