Black Swan Green

Mitchell, David

£9.99

Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village in the dullest county in the most tedious nation on earth. This book follows 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and politics.

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Publish Date: 02/04/2007

Description

‘ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY’ Independent

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize

‘Gorgeous’
Daily Mail

‘Uproariously funny’
Evening Standard

‘Spellbinding’
Tatler

‘Brilliant’
New York Times Book Review

‘Luminously beautiful’
The Times

The Sunday Times bestselling fourth novel from the critically acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas

January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor – covert stammerer and reluctant poet – anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn’t reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL

‘A thrilling and gifted writer’
Financial Times

‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’
Daily Mail

‘Mitchell is, clearly, a genius’
New York Times Book Review

‘An author of extraordinary ambition and skill’
Independent on Sunday

‘A superb storyteller’
The New Yorker

Additional information

Weight 269 g
Dimensions 198 × 143 × 26 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

371

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K