The glass hotel

The Resource The glass hotel

Label

The glass hotel

Statement of responsibility

Emily St. John Mandel

Language

eng

Summary

This is a captivating novel of money, beauty, whitecollar 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 the beautiful 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 NeptuneAvramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a NeptuneAvramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St John Mandel's 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

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult

Context

Context of The glass hotel

Work of

The glass hotel, Emily St. John Mandel

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by City of Stirling Library Services. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

The glass hotel Resource Information The work The glass hotel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Context

Work of

The glass hotel

Resource Information

The work The glass hotel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.