A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is …
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A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s most subtlest and effective achievement to date.
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Black Swan Green
Hardcover, 598 pages
English language
Published July 5, 2006 by Thorndike Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7862-8707-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 65301949
Black Swan Green
Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published Feb. 27, 2007 by Vintage Canada.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-676-97497-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 70884600
Black Swan Green
Hardcover, 304 pages
English language
Published April 11, 2006 by Knopf Canada.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-676-97496-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61427463
Black Swan Green
Paperback, 304 pages
English language
Published Feb. 27, 2007 by Random House Trade Paperbacks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8129-7401-0Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Sceptre.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-340-82279-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 63396950
Black Swan Green
electronic resource
English language
Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Random House Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58836-528-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 297114185
Black Swan Green
Paperback, 288 pages
Published April 30, 2006 by Knv Open Market Editions.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-340-83926-3Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green
294 pages
English language
Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-6379-6Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green
audio cd
English language
Published April 11, 2006 by RH Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7393-3248-1Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green Signed ed (Bookplates)
Hardcover
Published May 30, 2006 by Hodder Hb.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84579-367-8Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green
audio cassette
English language
Published Jan. 30, 2006 by Books On Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4159-2849-3Copied ISBN!
Black Swan Green
audio cd
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2006 by Books on Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4159-2850-9Copied ISBN!
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