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Sea of tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel.

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

Summary:

"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal -- an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593321447
  • ISBN: 0593321448
  • ISBN: 9780593466735
  • ISBN: 059346673X
  • Physical Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.

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General Note:
"A novel"--Cover.
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

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Subject:
Women authors > Fiction.
Space and time > Fiction.
Space colonies > Fiction.
Epidemics > Fiction.
Moon > Fiction.
Genre:
Time-travel fiction.
Science fiction.
Epic fiction.
Novels.

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  • 96 of 120 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 120 total copies.
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Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC MANDEL (Text) 36015001843123 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/13/2026

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