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About David Mitchell
See more books from this AuthorAdolescent angst during the Margaret Thatcher-inflected year of 1982 is the subject of two-time Booker nominee Mitchell's lively (autobiographical?) fourth novel.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelA coming-of-age novel about the ordinary magic of being 13, by the author of "Ghostwritten" and "Cloud Atlas."
Apr 16 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelA coming-of-age novel about the ordinary magic of being 13, by the author of "Ghostwritten" and "Cloud Atlas."
Apr 16 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelThere is a guitar and a painting in Madame Crommelynck's hallway that are described three times, each successive time in a state of accelerated physical and narrative decrepitude - the woman in the painting is first "bare", then "shivery", then "dying" - as though time has sped up in this literar...
Apr 28 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelBlack Swan Green David Mitchell Sceptre £16.99, pp371 'It is the bliss of childhood,' William Gaddis wrote in his great novel, The Recognitions, 'that we are being warped most when we know it the least.' Novels written from the child's point of view are never written by children;
Apr 16 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A Novelthirteen-year-old Jason Taylor --- each one of the thirteen.
Dec 22 2010 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelThe brilliant, compulsively playful British author David Mitchell has .
Apr 12 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelIn his new novel, Mitchell abandons these.
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Aug 29 2007 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelJason Taylorlike Mitchell in his youthis a geeky 13-year-old poet living in a yuppifying subdivision in Black Swan Green, a Worcestershire village.
Apr 09 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A Novelthirteen-year-old Jason Taylor --- each one of the thirteen.
Feb 27 2007 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelReading David Mitchell’s fourth novel, which is told through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy, reminded me why girls have little or no interest in the contents of boys’ heads until they are well out of their teens.
May 13 2006 | Read Full Review of Black Swan Green: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 234 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes