Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the kind people at Lloyd’s List for granting me a trial subscription to read more about shipping, and would also like to thank Rose George for her fascinating book on the industry, Ninety Percent of Everything. While all of the characters in this book are entirely fictional, the financial crime in the narrative is modeled on Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, which collapsed in December 2008. I am indebted to two excellent books on the subject: Erin Arvedlund’s Too Good to Be True and Diana B. Henriques’s The Wizard of Lies.
With thanks to my wonderful agent, Katherine Fausset, and her colleagues at Curtis Brown in New York; my editors—Jennifer Jackson, Sophie Jonathan, and Jennifer Lambert—and their colleagues at Knopf in New York, Picador in London, and HarperCollins Canada in Toronto; Anna Weber and her colleagues at United Agents in the U.K.; Lauren Cerand and Kevin Mandel for reading early drafts of the manuscript; and Michelle Jones, my daughter’s former nanny, for taking excellent care of my daughter during the time I spent writing this book.
A Note About the Author
Emily St. John Mandel’s four previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and has been translated into thirty-three languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Also by Emily St. John Mandel
Last Night in Montreal
The Singer’s Gun
The Lola Quartet
Station Eleven
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Copyright
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2020 by Emily St. John Mandel
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
A few paragraphs of this narrative appeared, in a different but possibly recognizable form, as “Mr. Thursday,” a short story published by Slate (in partnership with Arizona State University) in 2017. “Mr. Thursday” was loosely based on a very early draft of this novel.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mandel, Emily St. John, [date] author.
Title: The glass hotel : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019023840 | ISBN 9780525521143 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525521150 (ebk) | ISBN 9781524711764 (open market)
Subjects: GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR9199.4.M3347 G53 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019023840
Ebook ISBN 9780525521150
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Cover design by Abby Weintraub
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