The Glass Hotel
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(Sprache: Englisch)
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"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
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3Leon Prevant left the lobby at four-thirty a.m., climbed the stairs to his room, and crept into the bed, where his wife was sleeping. Marie didn t wake up. He d purposefully drunk one whiskey too many with the thought that this might make it possible to fall asleep, but it was as if the graffiti had opened a crack in the night, through which all his fears flooded in. If pressed he might have admitted to Marie that he was worried about money, but worried wasn t strong enough. Leon was afraid.
A colleague had told him this place was extraordinary, so he d booked an extremely expensive room as an anniversary surprise for his wife. His colleague was right, he d decided immediately. There were fishing and kayaking expeditions, guided hikes into wilderness, live music in the lobby, spectacular food, a wooded path that opened into a forest glade with an outdoor bar and lanterns hung from trees, a heated pool overlooking the tranquil waters of the sound.
It s heavenly, Marie said on their first night.
I m inclined to agree.
He d sprung for a room with a hot tub on the terrace, and that first night they were out there for at least an hour, sipping champagne with a cool breeze in their faces, the sun setting over the water in a postcard kind of way. He kissed her and tried to convince himself to relax. But relaxation was difficult, because a week after he d booked this extravagant room and told his wife about it, he d begun to hear rumors of a pending merger.
Leon had survived two mergers and a reorganization, but when he heard the first whispers of this latest restructuring, he was struck by a certainty so strong that it felt like true knowledge: he was going to lose his job. He was fifty-eight years old. He was senior enough to be expensive, and close enough to retirement to be let go without weighing too heavily on anyone s conscience. There was no part of his job that couldn t be performed by younger executives who made less money than
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he did. Since hearing of the merger he d lived whole hours without thinking about it, but the nights were harder than the days. He and Marie had just bought a house in South Florida, which they planned to rent out until he retired, with the idea of eventually fleeing New York winters and New York taxes. This seemed to him to be a new beginning, but they d spent more money on the house than they d meant to, he had never been very good at saving, and he was aware that he had much less in his retirement accounts than he should. It was six-thirty in the morning before he fell into a fitful sleep.
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When Walter returned to the lobby the following evening, Leon Prevant was eating dinner at the bar with Jonathan Alkaitis. They d met a little earlier, in what seemed at the time like a coincidental manner and seemed later like a trap. Leon had been at the bar, eating a salmon burger, alone because Marie was lying down upstairs with a headache. Alkaitis, who was drinking a pint of Guinness two stools down, struck up a conversation with the bartender and then expanded the conversation to include Leon. They were talking about Caiette, which, as it happened, Jonathan Alkaitis knew something about. I actually own this property, he said to Leon, almost apologetically. It s hard to get to, but that s what I like about it.
I think I know what you mean, Leon said. He was always looking for conversations, and it was a pleasure to think about something anything! other than financial insolvency and unemployment for a moment. Do you own other hotels?
Just the one. I mostly work in finance. Alkaitis had a couple of businesses in New York, he said, both of which involved investing other people s mo
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When Walter returned to the lobby the following evening, Leon Prevant was eating dinner at the bar with Jonathan Alkaitis. They d met a little earlier, in what seemed at the time like a coincidental manner and seemed later like a trap. Leon had been at the bar, eating a salmon burger, alone because Marie was lying down upstairs with a headache. Alkaitis, who was drinking a pint of Guinness two stools down, struck up a conversation with the bartender and then expanded the conversation to include Leon. They were talking about Caiette, which, as it happened, Jonathan Alkaitis knew something about. I actually own this property, he said to Leon, almost apologetically. It s hard to get to, but that s what I like about it.
I think I know what you mean, Leon said. He was always looking for conversations, and it was a pleasure to think about something anything! other than financial insolvency and unemployment for a moment. Do you own other hotels?
Just the one. I mostly work in finance. Alkaitis had a couple of businesses in New York, he said, both of which involved investing other people s mo
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Autoren-Porträt von Emily St. John Mandel
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL's five previous novels include The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Emily St. John Mandel
- 2021, International, 320 Seiten, Masse: 13,4 x 20,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 052556294X
- ISBN-13: 9780525562948
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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A SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER NPR TIME THE WASHINGTON POST ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY FORTUNE GLAMOUR ELLE THE AV CLUB REAL SIMPLE LITHUB PARADE THE BBC THRILLIST BOOKPAGE ELECTRIC LITERATURE GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUSTLE THE ECONOMIST INSIDER HUFFPOST NEW YORK POST THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYUnerringly graceful. . . . A striking book that s every bit as powerful and timely as its predecessor. . . . A masterpiece. NPR
Flawlessly constructed. The Boston Globe
Heartbreakingly resonant. San Francisco Chronicle
Lyrical, hypnotic. The Wall Street Journal
A careful, damning study of the forms of disaster humanity brings down on itself. Vulture
A beguiling tale about skewed morals, reckless lives and necessary means of escape. The Economist
A wondrously entertaining novel. Slate
A master in her prime . . . a marvel of intricacy from beginning to end. Entertainment Weekly
Mandel s gift is to weave realism out of extremity. She plants her flag where the ordinary and the astonishing meet. . . . She is our bard of waking up in the wrong time line. The New Yorker
Richly satisfying. . . . Deeply imagined, philosophically profound. The Atlantic
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