Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But award-winning author David Mitchell creates an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy: a world of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigre; of first cigarettes, first kisses, and first deaths; 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, humorous, profound, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is Mitchell's subtlest and most luminous achievement to date.
Book Condition: Very Good
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Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 067697497X
ISBN-13: 9780676974973
