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From award-winning author David Mitchell comes a fibrous, hypnotic story of boyhood on the cusp of maturity and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan monitors just one year in what's, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a desperate Cold-War England, 1982. But the thirteen sections, each a brief tale in its right, produce an exceptionally observed planet that's anything but tired. An environment of Kissingeresque realpolitik passed in boys’ activities on the freezing river; of “nightcreeping” through summer time yards of visitors; of the tabloid-supported thrills of the Falklands Conflict and its human cost; of the vicious, delicious Beginning Madden and her energy-hungry partner, Ross Wilcox; of a particular Madame Eva van Outryve p Crommelynck, an aged bohemian emigré who's both more and significantly less than she seems; of Jason’s research to displace his deceased grandfather’s essential broke view prior to the offense is found; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first fatalities; of Maggie Thatcher’s downturn; of Gypsies hiking in the woods and the anxiety they encourage; and, perhaps nearer to home, of the slow-movement breakup in four seasons.Pointed, humorous, serious, left-field, elegiac, and colored with all the material of existence, Black Swan Green is Donald Mitchell’s subtlest and best accomplishment to date.From the Hardcover version.