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| Writer | Emily St. John Mandel |
| Category | Novel |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Publish Date | 2014 |
| Pages | 303 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
| File Type |
The book referenced in passing in Chapter 43 (vampires, North America placed under quarantine, etc.) is The Passage, by Justin Cronin. The line painted on the lead caravan and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm, “Survival is insufficient,” is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore.
Station Eleven PDF – Emily St. John Mandel
I owe a debt of inspiration to Simon Parry, whose September 28, 2009, Daily Mail article “Revealed: The Ghost Fleet of the Recession Anchored Just East of Singapore” inspired the chapters of the book set in Malaysia. Station Eleven PDF
The Toronto staging of King Lear described in this book is partially based on James Lapine’s exquisite 2007 production of the play at the Public Theater in New York City, in that Lapine’s production featured the unusual addition of three little girls who performed nonspeaking parts as child versions of Lear’s daughters.
To my wonderful agent, Katherine Fausset, and her colleagues at Curtis Brown; To Anna Webber and her colleagues at United Agents; To my editors, whose tireless work made this a far better book than it would otherwise have been. In alphabetical order: Jenny Jackson at Knopf, Sophie Jonathan at Picador UK, and Jennifer Lambert at HarperCollins Canada.
To everyone who acquired and/or worked on this book at Knopf, Picador, HarperCollins, and abroad; To Sohail Tavazoie, for so graciously accommodating my book tour schedule. To Greg Michalson, Fred Ramey, and their colleagues at Unbridled, for their support and generosity; To Michele Filgate and Peter Geye, for reading and commenting on early versions of the manuscript.
Station Eleven PDF – Emily St. John Mandel
To Pamela Murray, Sarah MacLachlan, Nancy Miller, Christine Kopprasch, Kathy Pories, Maggie Riggs, Laura Perciaseppe, and Andrea Schulz, for their enthusiasm for the work and for their extremely helpful editorial comments; To Richard Fausset, for anthropological assistance; To Jon Rosten, for intel on the Mackinac Bridge; To Kevin Mandel, always, for everything.
THE KING STOOD in a pool of blue light, unmoored. This was Act 4 of King Lear, a winter night at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Earlier in the evening, three little girls had played a clapping game onstage as the audience entered, childhood versions of Lear’s daughters, and now they’d returned as hallucinations in the mad scene. Station Eleven PDF
The king stumbled and reached for them as they flitted here and there in the shadows. His name was Arthur Leander. He was fifty-one years old, and there were flowers in his hair. “Dost thou know me?” the actor playing Gloucester asked. “I remember thine eyes well enough,” Arthur said, distracted by the child version of Cordelia, and this was when it happened.
Station Eleven PDF – Emily St. John Mandel
There was a change in his face, he stumbled, he reached for a column but misjudged the distance and struck it hard with the side of his hand. “Down from the waist they are Centaurs,” he said, and not only was this the wrong line, but the delivery was wheezy, his voice barely audible. Station Eleven PDF
He cradled his hand to his chest like a broken bird. The actor portraying Edgar was watching him closely. It was still possible at that moment that Arthur was acting. But in the first row of the orchestra section, a man was rising from his seat. He’d been training to be a paramedic.
The man’s girlfriend tugged at his sleeve, hissed, “Jeevan! What are you doing?” And Jeevan himself wasn’t sure at first, the rows behind him murmuring for him to sit. An usher was moving toward him. Snow began to fall over the stage.
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