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New Lebanon Book Group: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
November 1, 2015
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s fourth novel, “Station Eleven,” begins with a spectacular end. One night, in a Toronto theater, onstage performing the role of King Lear, 51-year-old Arthur Leander has a fatal heart attack. There is barely time for people to absorb this shock when tragedy on a considerably vaster scale arrives in the form of a flu pandemic so lethal that, within weeks, most of the world’s population has been killed.
“Station Eleven” is as much a mystery as it is a post-apocalyptic tale, and Mandel is especially good at planting clues and raising the kind of plot-thickening questions that keep the reader turning pages.
---Sigrid Nunez, Sept 12, 2014
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