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From Publishers Weekly At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell's previous works, Ghostwritten and number9dream (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize), this latest foray relies on a kaleidoscopic plot structure that showcases the author's stylistic virtuosity. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume's most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer and a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is). Mitchell's ability to throw his voice may remind some readers of David Foster Wallace, though the intermittent hollowness of his ventriloquism frustrates. Still, readers who enjoy the 'novel as puzzle' will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more From The New Yorker Mitchell's virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a nave clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage; an aspiring composer who insinuates himself into the home of a syphilitic genius; a journalist investigating a nuclear plant; a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands; and a cloned human being created for slave labor. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the novel. Only after this do the second halves of the stories fall into place, pulling the novel's themes into focus: the ease with which one group enslaves another, and the constant rewriting of the past by those who control the present. Against such forces, Mitchell's characters reveal a quiet tenacity. When the clerk is told that his life amounts to 'no more than one drop in a limitless ocean,' he asks, 'Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?' Copyright 2005 The New Yorker Read more See all Editorial ReviewsCloud Atlas is a 2004 novel the third book by British author David Mitchell It consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in LibraryThing Review User Review Cloud Atlas A Novel David Mitchell on Amazon com FREE shipping on qualifying offers By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks This book proves David Mitchell can be any writer he chooses The six novellas that comprise Cloud Atlas are forgeries The Paperback of the Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell at Barnes Noble Cloud Atlas is a brilliant novel that intertwines stories and styles across centuries David Mitchell s new novel of interlinked narratives Cloud Atlas takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride says AS Byatt And you won t want to get off Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a set of six interconnected tales that span generations and continents to illustrate the basic human condition Cloud Atlas A Novel CLOUD ATLAS By David Mitchell 509 pp Random House Paper 14 95 IT is not unheard of for a novelist of exceptional talent to write a deliberately Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Learning Guide by PhD students from Stanford Harvard Berkeley Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German Cloud Atlas book summary chapter summaries of Cloud Atlas novel Cloud Atlas A Novel by David Mitchell available in Hardcover on Powells com also read synopsis and reviews By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone I read some of the other reviews complaining that they thought they were picking up the book Cloud Atlas which was made into a movie and then David Mitchell s Cloud Atlas is a popular choice for book groups around the world But it turns out that American readers may be enjoying a rather different Cloud Atlas Questions and Answers The Question and Answer section for Cloud Atlas is a great resource to ask questions find answers and discuss the novel Most sane directors in Hollywood took one look at David Mitchell s sprawling densely layered novel Cloud Atlas and said this is unfilmable Luckily for all of us David Mitchell the author of Cloud Atlas told the Paris Review in 2010 that Cloud Atlas is a novel about whose echoes eddies and cross Download Cloud Atlas book ISBN 0340822783 by David Mitchell for free Download or read online free e book at www freewpmedia com Cloud Atlas is a study guide that contains a biography of David Mitchell literature essays quiz questions major themes characters and a full summary and analysis Cloud Atlas is a brilliant novel It is put together with almost clockwork precision in its exploration of several themes many of which boil down to the duality of Cloud Atlas A Novel Random House Trade Paperbacks August 2004 Trade Paperback Used Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell available in Trade Paperback on Powells com also read synopsis and reviews By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas One of the biggest joys in Cloud Atlas is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step Boston Sunday Cloud Atlas A Novel Get this from a library Cloud atlas a novel David Mitchell AbeBooks com Cloud Atlas A Novel 9780375507250 by David Mitchell and a great selection of similar New Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices Based on the best San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen on Cloud Atlas Behind all the brilliant structural cantilevering is a writer blessed with a ventriloquist Cloud Atlas A Novel by David Mitchell and a great selection of similar Used New and Collectible Books available now at AbeBooks com Free Download Cloud Atlas: A Novel di eBook PDF.
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