{"product_id":"9781443434867","title":"Station Eleven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theatre troupe known as the Travelling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding 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 actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, \u003cem\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame and the beauty of the world as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily St. John Mandel (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Rough front","offer_id":51610052428072,"sku":"9781443434867","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/7482\/1928\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e51f906f-5234-4a24-af8b-603b11f57d71.jpg?v=1775070816","url":"https:\/\/hiddengembookco.ca\/products\/9781443434867","provider":"Hidden Gem Book Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}