The bone clocks: a novel
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The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize | Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine | A New York Times Notable Book | An American Library Association Notable Book | Winner of the World Fantasy Award Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, includingNPR | San Francisco Chronicle | The Atlantic | The Guardian | Slate | BuzzFeed“With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”—Los Angeles TimesFollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and 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 on the war in 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 by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.” An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure—it is fiction at its most spellbinding.Praise for The Bone Clocks “One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR“[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.”—The New York Times Book Review “Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.”—The Washington Post “[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell is one of the most electric writers alive.”—The Boston Globe
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Coincidence
Coincidence -- Fiction
Cults
Cults -- Fiction
Downloadable e-Books
Electronic books
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
European
Family life
Family life -- Fiction
Fantasy
Fantasy -- FICTION
Fiction
FICTION -- Literary
FICTION / Fantasy / General
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
Imaginary wars and battles
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
Literary
Literary -- FICTION
LITERARY CRITICISM
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature
Mortality
Mortality -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Mystics
Mystics -- Fiction
Parapsychology
Parapsychology -- Fiction
Psychics
Psychics -- Fiction
Runaways
Runaways -- Fiction
Science fiction
Science Fiction -- FICTION
Survival
Survival -- Fiction
Visions
Visions -- Fiction
Coincidence -- Fiction
Cults
Cults -- Fiction
Downloadable e-Books
Electronic books
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
European
Family life
Family life -- Fiction
Fantasy
Fantasy -- FICTION
Fiction
FICTION -- Literary
FICTION / Fantasy / General
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
Imaginary wars and battles
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
Literary
Literary -- FICTION
LITERARY CRITICISM
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature
Mortality
Mortality -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Mystics
Mystics -- Fiction
Parapsychology
Parapsychology -- Fiction
Psychics
Psychics -- Fiction
Runaways
Runaways -- Fiction
Science fiction
Science Fiction -- FICTION
Survival
Survival -- Fiction
Visions
Visions -- Fiction
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9780812994735
9781464018541
9780812994735
9781464018541
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880L
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