No one can create beautiful, enmeshed, startlingly clever worlds the way Mandel does. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509882809 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 426 g Dimensions: 226 x 145 x 35 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, 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. haunting and evocative and immersive' George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.
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