Bibliograph

The glass hotel, a novel, Emily St. John Mandel

Type

Label

The glass hotel, a novel, Emily St. John Mandel

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The glass hotel

Oclc number

1134443085

Responsibility statement

Emily St. John Mandel

Sub title

a novel

Summary

""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 Vincent 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. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts." --, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification