{"product_id":"9781529065619","title":"The Glass Hotel","description":"Author: Emily St. John Mandel\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529065619\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 199mm x 131mm x 31mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A damn fine novel . . . haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of \u003ci\u003eA Game of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e The extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven.\u003c\/i\u003e Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts. \u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE GLASS HOTEL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'A lovely, beautifully written and constructed novel that I couldn't put down, full of memorable, unusual characters... Mandel's agility with time in this story was a marvel.' Kristin Hannah, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale '\u003c\/i\u003eElegant . . . beguiling . . . the joys of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotel\u003c\/i\u003e are participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections of Mandel's human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e 'Though its characters were inspired by Bernie Madoff, his victims, and his enablers, there's much more to this novel than ripped-from-the-headlines voyeurism; it's a gorgeously constructed tapestry, each jewellike sentence building to one of the most devastating, moving endings in recent memory. I read it when I was feeling uniquely exhausted by the demands of COVID-era living; I still couldn't put it down.' \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e'Long-anticipated... At its heart, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical... In luminous prose, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure. A strange, subtle, and haunting novel.' \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred '\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece, just as good - if not better - than its predecessor. It's a stunning look at how people react to disasters, both small and large, and the temptation that some have to give up when faced with tragedy.'\u003ci\u003e NPR '\u003c\/i\u003eA wondrously entertaining novel... \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is never dull. Tracing the permutations of its characters' lives, from depressing apartments in bad neighborhoods to posh Dubai resorts to Manhattan bars, Colorado campgrounds, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is like following the intricate patterns on Moroccan tiles.' \u003ci\u003eSlate \u003c\/i\u003e'Mandel's wonderful novel (after \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e) follows a brother and sister as they navigate heartache, loneliness, wealth, corruption, drugs, ghosts, and guilt... This ingenious, enthralling novel probes the tenuous yet unbreakable bonds between people and the lasting effects of momentary carelessness.' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45065844031646,"sku":"ADS-9781529065619","price":21.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529065619.jpg?v=1738729420","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529065619","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}