{"product_id":"black-swan-green-book-david-mitchell-9780812974010","title":"Black Swan Green","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas \u003c\/i\u003e Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eas One of the Ten Best Books of the Year\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book Named One of the Best Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist Winner of the ALA Alex Award Finalist for the Costa Novel Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Swan Green\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eenacted 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 emigr  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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan Green \u003c\/i\u003eis David Mitchell's subtlest and most effective achievement to date. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49602236383505,"sku":"GOR001544850","price":13.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49617432838417,"sku":"GOR002280197","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653302755601,"sku":"GOR007511595","price":13.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796330914065,"sku":"CIN0812974018G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50046578393361,"sku":"CIN0812974018A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50431603769617,"sku":"CIN0812974018VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008134775057,"sku":"NIN9780812974010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109463355665,"sku":"GOR013420386","price":13.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52383617089809,"sku":"CIN0812974018LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812974018.jpg?v=1751429890","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/black-swan-green-book-david-mitchell-9780812974010","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}