Station Eleven.

MANDEL, Emily St. John.

$400.00

Item Number: 147032

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this iconic novel, basis for the post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Emily St. John Mandel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.