Black Swan Green

Mitchell, David

ISBN 10: 1844561550 ISBN 13: 9781844561551

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

David Mitchell comes home - to England in 1982, and is in the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth and also he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics. In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed. Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom.

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Recensione:

Black Swan Green's 'I love 1982' nostalgia is a glassy, pitch-perfect, mock-innocent surface through which something rotten might appear. (Ali Smith Sunday Telegraph)

David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good . . . Black Swan Green is just gorgeous. (Eithne Farry Daily Mail )

It is the best kind of contemporary fiction. ( TLS )

Hugely touching and enjoyable. (Rachel Cooke, Summer Reads Observer)

A delight to read from beginning to end. ( Sunday Express )

Luminously beautiful. ( The Times )

Descrizione del libro:

David Mitchell, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted CLOUD ATLAS, returns with a vintage novel destined to be his most captivating achievement to date

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844561550
• ISBN 13: 9781844561551
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta
• Numero di pagine: 6