num_pages: 333
description: Set in the days of civilization's collapse Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star his would-be savior and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region risking everything for art and humanity.One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in timefrom the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remainsthis suspenseful elegiac spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor the man who tried to save him the actor's first wife his oldest friend and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
language: English
title: Station Eleven
publisher: Knopf