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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donnell, Patrick, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, David (David Stephen)--Criticism and interpretation.

Mitchell, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 explores Mitchell's main concerns--including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity--across the six novels published so far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie--writers whose works explore narrative in an age of globalization and cosmopolitanism. Patrick O'Donnell traces the through-lines of Mitchell's work from ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a chapter on each of the six novels, charts the evolution of Mitchell's fictional project."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441171221

1441171223

9781474217491

1474217494

9781441193018

1441193014

OCLC:

897378744