It is quite literally the workplace of the damned. ISBN-13: 9780525521143 Summary From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate eventsa massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. John Mandel's last novel was set in a world devastated by a worldwide flu epidemic. And, because that man works in the Gradia Building, Station Eleven’s readers instinctively know that it isn’t just a business address named for a big airline. John Mandel, 2020 Knopf Doubleday 320 pp. Their worlds are blown to pieces not by the Georgia flu, but by a man they believed to be a trusted counselor, even a dear friend. The people of The Glass Hotel, like their counterparts in Station Eleven, do not know what is about to hit them until it is too late. Mandel continues the tale of Vincent Smith, making her the key. Fans of Mandel’s most recent novel, The Glass House, will also appreciate the interweaving of the plot and characters with those of Sea of Tranquility. In fiction, worlds are created and collapsed, god-like, while characters remain blissfully ignorant until they no longer can be. John Mandel’s Time Traveler Seeks to Solve a Mystery Across Time and Space in The Sea of Tranquility. Mandel is having a bit of fun there, creating a world where her Georgia flu pandemic never happened, where these two - along with billions of other fictional people - lived on, blithely unaware of the fates the author’s imagination had visited upon them.

One of Station Eleven’s peripheral characters becomes part of The Glass Hotel’s plot, and a more central character in the earlier book appears here as a peripheral one.

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