REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York ...
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REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century. An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ? Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.
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Add this copy of Ghostwritten to cart. $6.59, very good condition, Sold by Orbiting Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Vintage.
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None. Fine. A signed first edition of David Mitchell's acclaimed debut novel, consisting of nine disparate but interconnected tales. The first edition, first impression of this work, flat signed by Mitchell to the title page, and with his distinctive curlicues appearing in ink over his typed name. Mitchell's celebrated first novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Written episodically, the novel follows a different central character in each chapter, with their lives interlinked through seemingly coincidental events. A number of characters mentioned in the work appear in Mitchell's later novels, including Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to the title page. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine.
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This was given to me by my wife as a surprise. I knew that he has written the libretto for the opera "WAKE' which has music by Klaas de Vies and was produced in Holland to much acclaim. I found the story fascinating.I am not surprised that David Mitchell has won so many prizes in
literature and has been short listed twice for the BOOKER Prize. Please enjoy this work and you will thinking about
this long after you complete the book. Enjoy and think about what he says..........
Henry S F
Nov 4, 2010
Don't miss this book!
If you are interested in young, modern English writers start here! Many of Mitchell's characters/themes reappear in later novels, so reading them in sequence really adds new levels of meaning to the later works. Highly recommended.
Scott C
Oct 21, 2010
All good
Fabulous as has been everything he has written. They are all worth reading.
bookboy
Jun 19, 2007
It's OK
The concept of Ghostwritten is compelling: several unrelated, interconnected stories that somehow are suppose to create a whole. At first, part of the fun in reading Ghostwritten is being plunked in the middle of some interesting crisis in a character's life. You become fascinatingly absorbed in the tale and then suddenly you're unceremoniously removed from the character's somewhat unresolved story and plunked into the middle of another character crisis in another part of the world. Disoriented, you read along sucked into this new tale only to have this happen to you again and again. It's jarring and throws off the momentum a bit, but keeps the novel fresh and exciting. What makes this so much fun is unexpectedly stumbling across interconnections to characters from past stories that thread throughout. I found myself excited from anticipation when each new chapter began, looking out for the surprise connections. Because of this, I read the book slowly, savoring each new twist and turn wanting to make the read last. Mitchell is a good storyteller and sucks you in completely.
Perhaps in reading this so slowly I missed something. The last interesting chapter is London with the ghostwriter. The final few chapters fall apart, especially the New York City chapter. The DJ chatting with the Zookeeper was a complete "What the ...???" moment and when I read the last page I scratched my head and thought, "Did I miss something?" I didn't understand the point to having the stories interconnect outside of its entertainment value. I wasn't quite sure I "got" the big picture. I think the novel went in a full circle but I'm unsure.
It's enough to make me want to closely re-read the novel to see what I've missed but I don't think I really need to know that badly to compell me to re-read Ghostwritten. It's a fun read, full of wonderful visuals and lyrical writing but for me it wasn't a completely cohesive read. I give it three stars. Recommended, but expect to be somewhat disappointed with the ending.
