Black Swan Green
by David Mitchell · first published 2006
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A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfri
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I'm drawn by media featuring stuttering. One of my favourite novels, for example, is Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, a book about a 13-year-old boy growing up in 80s Britain and who suffers a stutter. It captures wonderfully the silent struggle, the desperate attempts to conceal a condition. I'm…
on “The Stutterer (2011)” ↗"The brutal may have been moulded by a brutality you cannot exceed. Let guile be your ally." - David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
on “Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids” ↗