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It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigré, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell's subtlest and most captivating achievement to date.
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Black swan green, David Mitchell
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Black swan green
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Mitchell
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0340921668
- ISBN13
- 9780340921661
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, British Literature, England, Literary Fiction, English Literature, Coming Of Age, Psychological novels, Bullying, Small Town, For Boys, The World Through a Child's Eyes, Stuttering, Novels about Artists
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Black Swan Green
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigré, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell's subtlest and most captivating achievement to date.