the glass hotel emily st john mandel review

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.' NPR ' The Glass Hotel is a masterpiece, just as good - if not better - than its predecessor. A strange, subtle, and haunting novel.' Kirkus Reviews, starred 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.

At its heart, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical. I read it when I was feeling uniquely exhausted by the demands of COVID-era living I still couldn't put it down.' Vanity Fair '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.

the joys of The Glass Hotel are participatory: piecing together the connections and intersections of Mandel's human cartography, a treasure map ripped to pieces' Guardian Mandel's agility with time in this story was a marvel.' Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale 'A lovely, beautifully written and constructed novel that I couldn't put down, full of memorable, unusual characters. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020 John Mandel's The Glass Hotel 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. Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. 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. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel.

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. The extraordinary novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven. haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones

The glass hotel emily st john mandel review