He and Marie had just bought a house in South Florida, which they planned to rent out until he retired, with the idea of eventually fleeing New York winters and New York taxes. Since hearing of the merger he'd lived whole hours without thinking about it, but the nights were harder than the days. There was no part of his job that couldn't be performed by younger executives who made less money than he did. He was senior enough to be expensive, and close enough to retirement to be let go without weighing too heavily on anyone's conscience. Leon had survived two mergers and a reorganization, but when he heard the first whispers of this latest restructuring, he was struck by a certainty so strong that it felt like true knowledge: he was going to lose his job. John Mandel's much anticipated novel is haunting and well-timed

John Mandel's latest novel, The Glass Hotel, is a timely look at a world derailed by financial fraud John Mandel has no idea where she's going.

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John Mandel turns her gifted attention to the mirages of now, and to the truth that we are haunted, always, by the lives of others.' Here, in her eagerly anticipated follow-up to Station Eleven, Emily St. Giller Prize jury citation: 'A boldly lyrical tale echoing the deceit and ruin of the 2008 financial crisis, The Glass Hotel brings together two restless siblings and a multi-billion-dollar investor as they each negotiate ambition, secrets, and loss within the kingdom of money. Bridging the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the shops and towers of Manhattan, and the netherworld of open waters, the novel commands a broad array of characters and a plot of kaleidoscopic intricacy. Her 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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