More about the book
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: Why don't you swallow broken glass. Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
Book purchase
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel
- Language
- Released
- 2020
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- The Glass Hotel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Emily St. John Mandel
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1524711764
- ISBN13
- 9781524711764
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Mystery Novels, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, USA, New York, Revenge, Canada, Seas and Oceans, Alcohol, Islands, Frauds, Corruption, Wealth, Hotels, Canadian Literature, Financial Crisis, Social Differences, British Columbia
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- The Glass Hotel
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half brother, Paul, scrawls a note on a windowed wall of the hotel: Why don't you swallow broken glass. Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company named Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of northern Vancouver Island, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.