UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16313342
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781415951606
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9781415951606
Content:
" By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel AwardFrom award-winning writer David Mitchell 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 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 subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green [David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like. —,i〉The Boston Globe [David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall. —,i〉Time [A] brilliant new novel . In Jason, Mitchell creates an evocation yet authentically adolescent voice. —,i〉The New York Times Book Review Alternately nostalgic, funny and heartbreaking. —,i〉The Washington Post Great Britain's Catcher in the Rye —,nd another triumph for one of the present age's most interesting and accomplished novelists. —,i〉Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This book is so entertainingly strange, so packed with activity, adventures, and diverting banter, that you only realize as the extraordinary novel concludes that the timid boy has grown before your eyes into a capable young man. —,i〉Entertainment WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition. "
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Rezension(1): " David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten . Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump . He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. " Rezension(2): " Entertainment Weekly :[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like. -- The Boston Globe [David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall. -- Time [A] brilliant new novel . In Jason, Mitchell creates an evocation yet authentically adolescent voice. -- The New York Times Book Review Alternately nostalgic, funny and heartbreaking. -- The Washington Post Great Britain's Catcher in the Rye --and another triumph for one of the present age's most interesting and accomplished novelists. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This book is so entertainingly strange, so packed with activity, adventures, and diverting banter, that you only realize as the extraordinary novel concludes that the timid boy has grown before your eyes into a capable young man." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Fans of David Mitchell's challenging, globe-spanning novels, Ghostwritten and CLOUD ATLAS, will find less to puzzle over in this straightforward coming-of-age novel set in Thatcher's England. But Mitchell's focus on voice and character is extended in this story of a boy with a stammer trying to hold his own in a rigid adolescent society. Jason's stammer, named Hangman, is both a character and an inflection, and Kirby Heyborne's fluid narration captures the constant trepidation and resourcefulness of his quick-thinking protagonist, who must outwit this adversary at every turn. Heyborne captures perfectly the pitch, the rootedness in place and era, and the triumph of character over affliction that are the soul of this fine novel. D.A.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine" Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from January 2, 2006 For his fourth novel, two-time Booker Prize finalist Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas , etc.) turns to material most writers plumb in their first: the semiautobiographical, first-person coming-of-age story. And after three books with notably complex narrative structure, far-flung settings, and multiple viewpoints, he has chosen one narrator, 13-year-old Jason Taylor, to tell the story of one year (1982) in one town, Worcestershire', Black Swan Green. Jason starts with the January day he accidentally smashes his late grandfather', irreplaceable Omega Seamaster DeVille watch and ends with Christmas, which, because of intervening events, becomes the last he spends in this sleepy Midlands hamlet. The gorgeously revealed cast includes Jason', brilliant older sister, sarcastic mother, blustering dad and a spectrum of bullies and mates. Jason', nemesis is an intermittent, fluctuating stammer: some days he must avoid words beginning with N,other days, S. Once he is exposed, the bullies taunt him mercilessly,there is no respite for the weak or disabled in Black Swan Green nor, as the realities of Thatcher', grim reign begin to take their toll, in England writ large. How Jason and his family navigate this year of change is the emotional core of this rich novel, but the virtuoso chapter is ",he Bridle Path,",wherein Jason, alone for one delicious day, searches for a tunnel fabled to have been dug by the Romans in order to rout the Vikings. What he finds along the way captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy and brings to mind adventures shared by Huck and Tom." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 5, 2006 Any ",hingers",out there won', feel comfortable in Mitchell', new novel of burgeoning and cruel adolescent boys in the rural but hardly pastoral England village of Black Swan Green. Heyborne, who performed one of the characters in the audiobook of Mitchell', Cloud Atlas , embodies the voice of 13-year-old Jason Taylor to perfection. His timbre is youthful and a tad reluctant, as might be expected of a teenager with a stammer who wants desperately to fit in with his rowdy friends. Jason', friends sound too much like Jason himself, but since they are viewed from Jason', perspective and since boys in a clique do tend to sound alike, the choices Heyborne makes are not problematic. The 1980s Worcestershire slang is more challenging, however. The addition of the letter ",",to words to form adjectives is somewhat ",ducationy,",but it is sometimes hard to work through regionalisms that one cannot see in order to place them better. Although Mitchell', novel doesn', lives up to Lord of the Flies , which it derives from, Heyborne', performance is both compelling and compassionate, and the audio is entertaining and highly rewarding. Simultaneous release with the Random House hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). "
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Auszeichnungen: Young Adult Library Services Association:Best Fiction for Young Adults
Language:
English
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https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/150626-BlackSwanGreen.wma
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http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=94D53386-711C-44AD-A3EC-9A7A7DF7E68A
Author information:
Mitchell, David
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