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The glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel.

Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979- (author.).

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A novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. 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. 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 remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781443455725
  • ISBN: 1443455725
  • ISBN: 9781443455732
  • ISBN: 1443455733
  • Physical Description: 301 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2020]

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Subject: Bartenders > Fiction.
Capitalists and financiers > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Ponzi schemes > New York (State) > Fiction.
Avarice > Fiction.
Shipping > Fiction.
Hotels > Fiction.
Vancouver Island (B.C.) > Fiction.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Canadian fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

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