Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas

A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space?

A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions--to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea--that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective--strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

Mitchell, David: - David Mitchell has been a Waldorf teacher for thirty-six years. He was a class teacher and a founding teacher of the Pine Hill Waldorf School in Wilton, New Hampshire. He has taught life sciences, Shakespeare, geometry, blacksmithing, woodworking, and stone sculpture in Waldorf high schools for thirty-six years. David is also an adjunct professor at Antioch College, has served as a leader in the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America (AWSNA) in various capacities since the 1980s. In 1997, the Amgen Corporation selected him as one of the top two teachers in the state of Colorado. Currently, he is the chair of publications for AWSNA and serves as the co-director of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education. He has edited scores of books over the years and is the author of Will-Developed Intelligence; Windows into Waldorf; The Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry; and 25 Plays, and Resources for Waldorf Teachers (all from AWSNA), as well as a contributor to The Inner Life of the Earth from Lindisfarne Books.

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ISBN 13	9780679463047
ISBN 10	0679463046
Title	Ghostwritten
Author	David Mitchell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-09-05
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Winner of Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2000
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