Moving back and forth in time-from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theatre troupe known as the Travelling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend and a young actress with the Travelling Symphony caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. One snowy night, a famous Hollywood actor dies onstage during a production of King Lear. The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse Longlisted for the Baileys Prize and for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionĪ New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller Clarke Awardįinalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Sunburst Award Winner of the Toronto Book Award and the Arthur C.
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