6/1/2023 0 Comments The glass hotel reviewHer fourth novel, Station Eleven, was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 2015 Toronto Book Award. John Mandel is a New York-based Canadian writer. The Glass Hotel was on the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist.Įmily St. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers 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. 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 a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island.
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