Black Swan Green
The Sunday Times bestseller that is David Mitchell's most enjoyable novel yet
The Sunday Times bestseller that is David Mitchell's most enjoyable novel yet
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340822807 (0340822805)
Publish date: April 2nd 2007
Publisher: Sceptre
Pages no: 371
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary
Mitchell hits a home-run again: a clever and meaningful coming-of-age novel told through thirteen months in a thirteen year old boy's life. Each story starts and ends abruptly, leaving you yearning for more, but eventually ties together in a fitting, if bittersweet, finale. Whether or not you've exp...
Unconvincing child narrators are one of my recurring sources of ire in literature. David Mitchell only seemed to be self-consciously channeling Holden Caulfield about half of the time. The other half of the time, his Jason was utterly heartbreaking and convincing. The "Hangman" chapter was one of th...
it was [b:Cloud Atlas|49628|Cloud Atlas|David Mitchell|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344305390s/49628.jpg|1871423] that brought me to Goodreads. hey, face it, it's 2013 and if you haven't received at least 20 'social invites' to 'the next Facebook,' probably you need to start working t...
Awesome Mitchell. As usual.Love the reader for the audio edition.
From such an architect of a novelist as Mitchell I expected much more.Reading 'Black Swan Green' brought to my mind a mediocre Jonathan Coe (with a better finale).A longer review will follow soon.
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