![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her prose doesn’t shout a story at you, it’s far more subtle than that. John MandelĪnyone who has read Station Eleven or in fact any of the author’s previous novels will know that Mandel writes thoughtful and addictive stories. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers 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.īook Review: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. Thirteen years later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, 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 the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. Theme: Fraud, Guilt and Haunting Love and relationships īook Summary: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. Major Characters: Paul, Vincent, Jonathan Alkaitis, Leon Prevant ![]()
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