David Mitchell

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Utopia Avenue

Beschreibung

'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent) turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s in this enthralling novel, a story of music, dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact.

Autor

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections. In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight. He lives in Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 465394
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781444799477
• ISBN-10: 1444799479
• Artikelnr.: 60189065

Rezensionen

What makes it a stand-out triumph is the vibrant flair with which it recreates an era, the acuteness with which it explores composition and performance, and its often witty verbal finesse Sunday Times