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Black Swan Green: Longlisted for the Booker Prize
David Mitchell
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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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Praise for Black Swan Green: Longlisted for the Booker Prize
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David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good . . . Black Swan Green is just gorgeous. - Daily Mail A delight to read from beginning to end - Sunday Express Luminously beautiful - The Times I do hope to read a better British novel this year, but I can't honestly say that I expect to. - Scotsman Mitchell is just about the best writer operating in Britain today . . . a novel that, like each of its predecessors, sticks in the back of your head for weeks after you've finished it. - Arena Spry, disconcerting and moving. It is also extremely funny even - or especially - at the blackest of moments. - ObserverIntricate and beautiful - Time Out Hugely touching and enjoyable - Observer
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