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Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding 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 Arthur Leander. a famous actor. has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary. a paparazzo-turned-EMT. is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR. pumping Arthurs chest as the curtain drops. but Arthur is dead. That same night. as Jeevan walks home from the theater. a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves insi...



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