Vintage</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b>A National Book Award Finalist<br></b>A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist <br><br></b><br>Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander the famous Hollywood actor had a heart attack on stage during a production of?<i>King Lear</i>.?That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city and within weeks civilization as we know it came to an end. <br><br>Twenty years later Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny bands existence. And as the story takes off moving back and forth in time and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><p><strong>An Amazon Best Book of the Month September 2014:</strong> A flight from Russia lands in middle America its passengers carrying a virus that explodes like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth.?? In a blink?? the world as we know it collapses. ??No more ballgames played under floodlights???? Emily St. John Mandel writes in this smart and sober homage to life??s smaller pleasures?? brutally erased by an apocalypse. ??No more trains running under the surface of cities ... No more cities ... No more Internet ... No more avatars.?? Survivors become scavengers?? roaming the ravaged landscape or clusteri