David Mitchell
Contemporary English Novelist and Structural Tinkerer By Emma HospelhornDavid Mitchell is a versatile English writer whose wildly inventive novels have established him as one of the great talents of his generation.
Hailed by some critics as the “creator of the 21st century novel,” David Mitchell is a versatile English writer whose wildly inventive books differ enough in scope and style to establish him as one of the great talents of his generation. A critical darling both at home and abroad, Mitchell’s first three novels--1999’s Ghostwritten and the subsequent Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas--are dazzlingly ambitious, freewheeling exercises in nonlinear narrative, all of which feature film-worthy adventure plots and virtuosic shifts in voice and setting. With the no less impressive Black Swan Green, written in 2006, Mitchell proved that he could conquer a more conventional format without skipping a beat, channeling his gift for voice and characterization into a single maturing character rather than a pastiche of reincarnated souls.
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