Black Swan Green: A Novel
SKU: DADAX1400063795
ISBN : 9781400063796
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Black Swan Green: A Novel
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 tracks 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 realpolitik enacted 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 emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s 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 Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date.
Specification of Black Swan Green: A Novel
GENERAL | |
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Author | David Mitchell |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
ISBN-10 | 1400063795 |
ISBN-13 | 9781400063796 |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication Year | 2006 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 6.61 inch. |
Length | 1.15 inch. |
Width | 9.55 inch. |
Weight | 1.1 pounds. |
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