Black Swan Green

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Thorndike Press, 2006 - Fiction - 598 pages
From award-winning author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year, 1982, at perhaps England's bleakest time - in what is for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor the sleepiest village in Worcestershire. But Mitchell creates an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy . . .

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About the author (2006)

David Mitchell was born in 1969 and his first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was published by Sceptre in 1999 and won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM (2001) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists 2003. His latest novel is entitled, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. He has also written Black Swan Green and Cloud Atlas, which was made into a major motion picture film in 2012.

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