Looking at her fan's tattoo, Olive is startled by the way fiction can bleed into the world and leave a mark on someone's skin. She also encounters a reader who's tattooed the novel's most famous line on her arm, much as some real-life fans have emulated a character in "Station Eleven" and gotten tattoos that declare survival is insufficient. In what reads like an unholy menage a trois with Sally Rooney and Claire Vaye Watkins, Mandel describes the marathon book tour endured by her fictional alter ego, an author named Olive Llewellyn, whose home is a colony on the moon, and whose novel about a worldwide pandemic has become a surprise blockbuster, much like "Station Eleven." In city after dizzying city, Olive fields sometimes inane questions from readers. In its central section called "Last Book Tour On Earth," the novel vaults into the 23rd century and into an unusual stylistic mode for Mandel - autofiction. When Edwin comes back to his senses, he's on his knees vomiting on a nearby beach. There are other people around him and then an incomprehensible sound. And he has an impression of being in some vast interior, something like a train station or a cathedral. One day, however, Edwin's nervous boredom gets the better of him, and he walks into the forest where underneath a giant maple tree, darkness falls like an eclipse. Andrew feels unprotected in the wilds of British Columbia, whose forests terrify him because of their indifference, their utter neutrality on the question of whether he lives or dies. Despite his double-sainted name, 18-year-old Edwin St. The novel opens in 1912 when the son of an aristocratic British family is banished to Canada for some rash dinner-table remarks about colonial policy. In "Sea Of Tranquility," Mandel summons up not one, but three fully realized worlds in three distinct time periods. World builder is a phrase that's rightly used to describe Mandel's immersive powers as a novelist. I didn't just read "Station Eleven," "The Glass Hotel" or Mandel's latest, "Sea of Tranquility." I lived in those novels and felt the remnants of their weird, chill atmosphere long after I had to move on. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Read is one of the best verbs in the English language, but it doesn't feel like the right verb to use in connection with Emily St.
Here's Maureen's review of "Sea Of Tranquility." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says success hasn't dulled Mandel's powers. And its successor by Mandel, "The Glass Hotel," and her latest, "Sea Of Tranquility," are also set to be adapted for TV.
John Mandel was adapted into a TV series on HBO Max. The 2014 blockbuster novel "Station Eleven" by Emily St.
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