Black Swan Green

English

ISBN: 0812974018

EAN: 9780812974010

Category: Fiction / General

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 02/27/2007

Synopsis: From the author of Cloud Atlas,now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Greentracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitikenacted in boys games on a frozen lake; of nightcreeping through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigr? who is both more and less than she appears; of Jasons search to replace his dead grandfathers irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatchers recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Greenis David Mitchells subtlest and most effective achievement to date. From the Hardcover edition.

Awards: Alex Awards – null  American Library Association Notable Books – null  Commonwealth Writers Prize – null  Costa Book Awards – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  Man Booker Prize for Fiction – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Quill Awards – null  School Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null 

Black Swan Green

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.63 inches

Width: 5.46 inches

Length: 8.24 inches

Weight: 8.01 oz

Pages: 304