The bone clocks : a novel
Holly Sykes' life story, spanning a period of 60 years, is recounted from her perspective, as well as from the point of view of characters who have influenced her life.
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Runaway teenagers > Fiction. Psychic ability > Fiction. Families > Fiction. |
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Fantasy fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0676979319
- ISBN: 9780676979312
- ISBN: 9781400065677
- Physical Description 624 pages
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
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The Bone Clocks
"The novelist who's been showing us the future of fiction" (The Washington Post), David Mitchell delivers a kaleidoscopic, serpentine masterpiece that navigates between characters, eras, and realms of possibility to weave its astonishing spell. nbsp; An eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist--David Mitchell has outdone himself. The Bone Clocks is a hypnotic Rubik's cube of a novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together long after the final piece is fit into place. nbsp; Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life.nbsp; 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 coincidencesnbsp; reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. nbsp; 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. nbsp; 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.