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The Glass Hotel
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
The New York Times bestselling novel, from the author of Station Eleven.
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, just after a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.
Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.
Critic reviews
"Dylan Moore's cool, smooth narration carries listeners through this story of deception, betrayal, and the cost of guilt. Jonathan Alkaitis constructed the Ponzi scheme of the century, and the novel centers around the myriad ramifications of its collapse. Throughout the audiobook listeners are dropped into the minds of those who were drawn into his web as investors or as co-conspirators. Many are haunted, quite literally, by those impacted by their actions. This is a novel that drifts from one point of view to another, and Moore guides listeners through subtle shifts in tone and accent." (AudioFile, April 2020)
"A damn fine novel...haunting and evocative and immersive." (George R R Martin, author of A Game of Thrones)
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- Shawn Walker, London
- 03-07-22
Beautiful
Excellent writing, beautifully woven story, captivating characters. I loved it. Looking forward to the next novel by ESJM.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-01-21
The accents!
I largely enjoyed the narration, but the accents were distractingly bad. It would have been better not to attempt them. Also some mangled French pronunciation. A pity as it was otherwise good
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- Francesca Adams
- 03-03-22
my bookclub LOVED it
My bookclub LOVED it but for me story was a little meandering for me. Beautifully written
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- 11-08-21
Poetic, Beautiful, Although Not Gripping
The prose is poetic and beautiful and I enjoyed the elements about the Ponzi scheme, but there were too many strands. It feels like three books in one.
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- Hannah
- 02-01-23
Great story let down slightly by dodgy accents
Great story & the US actor has a nice voice but can’t do any of the accents relevant to the story from Canadian to British & Australian. It’s a shame they didn’t use a Canadian actor.
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- ian mcnamara
- 19-10-21
Interisting story but hard plot to follow at times.
Quite enjoyed this book. Only reason i did not give it a higher rating is because i can’t decide weather i liked any of the characters or not. I also found it jumped around a lot so found the plot quite difficult to keep up with in places. It was however an interesting setting and idea for a story.
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- peter
- 06-01-21
A Pleasant Meander
at times the book feels directionless but it all comes together nicely and it is always enjoyable to spend time with Emily's well crafted characters.
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it's OK
I really enjoyed Station's Eleven but I felt that not much happened in this book. I kept expecting a big reveal but... .. I found I didn't really care what happened to the characters none of them are likeable. They're all out for what they can get.
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- Bookishly Bespectacled 📚🌿
- 10-05-20
Intriguing but eventually underwhelming
From the cover blurb, this isn’t the sort of book I would normally read but I was intrigued as a result of the author’s previous novel - Station Eleven - which I enjoyed for its simplicity and prescience. I was immediately drawn into The Glass Hotel - the simple yet elegant style of writing and intriguing central character: a young woman named Vincent, a social misfit albeit a beautiful one who tries to minimise risk in her life but ends up inadvertently at the central of it. However, I found the first half of the novel more engaging than the second as it moved away from Vincent and towards her much older husband who is the architect of a Ponzi scheme, a shipping merchant, and Vincent’s drug addict brother. I found these characters to be much less interesting, pathetic sorry-for-themselves types. This shift in focus had the effect of disengaging me from the story overall and no longer interested in Vincent’s fate.
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- markjhall
- 07-11-23
It’s ok, not as good as station 11
It’s ok not as good as station 11 if you know what I mean as such etc
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