The bone clocks characters6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This new novel offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation, stretching around the world from the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s to the Endarkenment of 2043. Marinus.)īut don’t let the high walls of his fan club intimidate you. (Why, there’s Jason Taylor’s cousin from “Black Swan Green.” And my, my - it seems like a thousand autumns since we last saw Dr. Devout Mitchellians are already cross-referencing the names and locales of “The Bone Clocks” in the ever-accreting concordance to his works. ![]() The presumption of an interconnected puzzle hangs over these narrators as though Mitchell’s oeuvre were some massive literary sudoku. Like “Cloud Atlas,” one of Mitchell’s earlier novels shortlisted for the Booker, “The Bone Clocks” presents a curio cabinet of apparently disparate stories, but readers should be onto his tricks by now. One bookseller told me that a customer offered money to be allowed to sit in the store and read an advance copy of “The Bone Clocks.” Named a finalist for the Booker Prize more than a month before publication, the novel has finally descended incarnate from the mind of this divinely inventive author. Like Thomas Pynchon and Haruki Murakami - to whom he’s often compared - Mitchell excites his culty fan base into fits of rapture. ![]() Anticipation started pooling around David Mitchell’s magical new novel as soon as the title was revealed last year. ![]()
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