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Cloud atlas : a novel / David Mitchell.
Weaves history, science, suspense, humor & pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume's most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer & a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is).
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676974942 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0676974945 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 509 p. ; 22 cm. : ill.
- Edition: Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2004.
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| Genre: | Postmodern fiction. Experimental fiction. Epistolary fiction. Short stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC MIT (Text) | 35130000096127 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | In transit | - |
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and futureâfrom a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction
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One of the New York Timesâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ⢠Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
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Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
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But the story doesnât end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
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As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
