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The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 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.
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Black swan green, David Mitchell
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Black swan green
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Mitchell
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0340822805
- ISBN13
- 9780340822807
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, British Literature, England, Coming Of Age, English Literature, Psychological novels, Bullying, Small Town, For Boys, Stuttering, The World Through a Child's Eyes, Novels about Artists
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Black Swan Green
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 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.