Emily St. John Mandel
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Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is a staff writer for The Millions. She has written several novels including Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, and Station Eleven. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Best American näytä lisää Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. In 2015, her novel, Station Eleven, was on the New York Times bestseller list and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2015. In the same year she won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science-fiction writing for her novel Statio Eleven. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Mr. Thursday 7 kappaletta
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Jälkisanat — 558 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1979
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- female
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- Canada (dual citizenship)
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- British Columbia, Canada
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Koulutus
- School of Toronto Dance Theatre
- Ammatit
- author
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- Katherine Fausset (Curtis Brown) [books]
Britton Rizzio (Writ Large) [screewriting]
Noah Rosen (Writ Large) [screewriting] - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Born on the coast of British Columbia, Canada in 1979. She studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York. She lives in Brooklyn.
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August 2023: Emily St. John Mandel, Monthly Author Reads (elokuu 2023)
Found: SciFi/Fan pandemic , Name that Book (syyskuu 2021)
Canadian Author Challenge — May: Michel Tremblay & Emily St. John Mandel, 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (kesäkuu 2016)
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The different threads are pulled together through the presence of a time traveler from the 25th century named Gaspary. Gaspary is recruited to work at the Time Institute to investigate what is essentially a “glitch in the Matrix”. As you might imagine, time travel is very strictly regulated in order to prevent corruption of the time line, which any reader of time travel genre can appreciate. Unfortunately, or not, Gaspary is not as meticulous in this regard as his overseers would like.
As stated, this is a very short work, easily consumable in a single sitting (3-4 hours), which is probably wise, given the complexity of the subject matter. The payoff is pretty decent and makes the effort worthwhile,… (lisätietoja)