The glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ponzi schemes.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Brothers and sisters.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

Ponzi schemes--Fiction.

Cruise ships--Fiction.

Cruise ships.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

301 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Summary:

"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"-- Provided by publisher.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes her his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, 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. Their lives paint a picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts. -- adapted from jacket

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780525521143

0525521143

9780525562948

052556294X

OCLC:

1100601369

Publisher Number:

99983673981