Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time--Fiction.

Space and time.

Space colonies--Fiction.

Space colonies.

Women authors--Fiction.

Women authors.

Epidemics--Fiction.

Epidemics.

Moon--Fiction.

Moon.

Genre:

Fiction.

Epic fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

255 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Summary:

"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal -- an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. "-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: St. John Mandel, Emily, 1979- Sea of Tranquility.

ISBN:

9780593321447

0593321448

9780593466735

059346673X

OCLC:

1251739463