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The glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel.
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 story 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443455725 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Mande | 31681010191286 | FICTION | Available | - |
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