A temporary future : the fiction of David Mitchell / Patrick O'Donnell.

Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan. Written for a wide constituency of readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell...

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Main Author: O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: many worlds, real time
  • A company of strangers: Ghostwritten
  • City life: Number9dream
  • Time travels: Cloud atlas
  • Timepiece: Blackswangreen
  • Minor histories: The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  • A secret war: The bone clocks
  • Epilogue toward a fiction of the future.