Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green
David Mitchell
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Paperback
h196 x 147mm - 384pg
2 Apr 2007 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780340822807
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Jason Taylor is 13 and stuck in the deadest village in the dullest country of darkest Cold War England. But with a stammer, bullies and simmering family discord to contend with, plus the Falklands War, village hysteria against a gypsy encampment and these mysterious objects known as girls, 1982 will prove to be anything but boring. A subtle, painful, elegiac, wry novel about the 'gap year' between childhood and adolescence, about a faded era, and about knowing what you don't know you know.
'David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good!BLACK SWAN GREENis just gorgeous.' -- Daily Mail 'A delight to read from beginning to end' -- Sunday Express 'Luminously beautiful' -- The Times 'I do hope to read a better British novel this year, but I can't honestly say that I expect to.' -- David Robertson, Scotsman 'Mitchell is just about the best writer operating in Britain today...a novel that, like each of its predecessors, sticks in the back of your head for weeks after you've finished it.' -- Arena 'Spry, disconcerting and moving. It is also extremely funny even - or especially - at the blackest of moments.' -- Kate Kellaway, Observer Summer Reads 'Intricate and beautiful' -- Time Out 'Hugely touching and enjoyable' -- Rachel Cooke, Observer Summer Reads 'It is the best kind of contemporary fiction' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Rich and strange' -- Guardian 'That very rare thing, a realistic first novel written by a master of his craft.' -- Christina Patterson, Independent 'All the drama and inadvertent comedy of the onset of adolescence are brilliantly laid bare!a deceptively easy read, at times uproariously funny' -- Evening Standard
David Mitchell's first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his third novel, CLOUD ATLAS, was shortlisted forsix awardsincludingthe Man Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Best Literary Fiction and South Bank Show Literature Prize. Born in 1969, he grew up in Worcestershire, and now lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780340822807
Published: 2 Apr 2007
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 147mm
Pages: 384
Dewey: 823.914

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