Black swan green : a novel / David Mitchell.
Black swan green : a novel / David Mitchell.
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New York : Random House, c2006.
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N823.92/176
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English
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294 p. ; 25 cm.
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Publisher
New York : Random House, c2006.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2006.
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"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 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 eld...
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Black swan green : a novel / David Mitchell.
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Originally published: Great Britain : Hodder & Stoughton, c2006.
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c2006.
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N823.92/176
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74VKMyL52zpb
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ISBN
1400063795 (hc : acid-free paper)
9781400063796 (hc : acid-free paper)
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823.92
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991021359559702626
