David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit-it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable. 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 "the radio people," 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. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and 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 Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born. 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. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together. From the Hardcover edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN-10
1490635335
ISBN-13
9781490635330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204124137
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bone Clocks
Author
David Mitchell
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Copyright Date
2014
Narrated by
Ball, Jessica Lauren, Mace, Colin, Crossley, Steven, Williams, Leon
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
23
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