Indies Choice Book Award
2015 · Fiction · Finalist
About This Book
An 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.
One 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 theater 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, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
One 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 theater 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, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
Awards
Indies Choice Book Award
2015 · Fiction · Honor Book
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
2015 · Novel · Finalist
Michigan Notable Books
2015 · Notable Book · Winner
New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award
2015 · Fiction · Winner
ALA Notable Books
2015 · Fiction
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
2015 · Fiction · Longlist
PEN/Faulkner Award
2015 · Fiction · Finalist
National Book Award
2014 · Fiction · Finalist
Indie Next
2014 · Starred Review
LibraryReads
2014 · Starred Review
LibraryReads
2014 · Year-End Favorite
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