The Bone Clocks A Novel
by Mitchell, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0676979319
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979312
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Knopf Canada. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. 1st; First Printing. Hardcover. 0676979319 . DJ has some creasing at bottom front. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Complete number line 1-10 ; 9.29 X 6.14 X 1.57 inches; 624 pages; The novelist whos 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. An eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylistDavid Mitchell has outdone himself. The Bone Clocks is a hypnotic Rubiks cube of a novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together long after the final piece is fit into place. Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on 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 mysticsand 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 Hollys life, affecting all the people Holly loveseven 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 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." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17642
- Title
- The Bone Clocks A Novel
- Author
- Mitchell, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0676979319
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979312
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- 0676979319, cloud atlas, Mystics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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