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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