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100 1 $aMandel, Emily St. John,$d1979-
245 10$aStation eleven :$ba novel /$cEmily St. John Mandel.
250 $a1st Vintage Book ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,$c2015.
300 $a333 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aOne snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary,is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops,but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricadethemselves inside as life disintegrates outside. This novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actresswith the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of adangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
650 0$aActors$vFiction.
650 0$aShakespearean actors and actresses$vFiction.
650 0$aSymphonies$vFiction.
650 0$aTraveling theater$vFiction.