The bone clocks : a novel / David Mitchell.
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- ISBN: 9780307366771
- ISBN: 0307366774
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2014.
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Subject: | Imaginary wars and battles > Fiction. FICTION. Imaginary wars and battles. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluentlymixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"-- - Random House, Inc.
âThe novelist whoâs been showing us the future of fictionâ (The Washington Post), David Mitchell delivers a kaleidoscopic, serpentine masterpiece that navigates between characters, eras, and realms of possibility to weave its astonishing spell.
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An eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylistâDavid Mitchell has outdone himself. The Bone Clocks is a hypnotic Rubikâs cube of a novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together long after the final piece is fit into place.
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Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as âthe radio people,â Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mysticsâand their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Hollyâs life, affecting all the people Holly lovesâeven the ones who are not yet born.
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A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence; a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from Occupied Iraq; a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list: all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.