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A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell
Professor Patrick O´donnell
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 304.
Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan.
Written for a wide constituency of readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell’s main concerns—including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity—across the six novels published so far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie—writers whose works explore narrative in an age ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441157287
SKU
V9781441157287
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About Professor Patrick O´donnell
Patrick O'Donnell is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including The American Novel Now: Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 (2010), Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000) and The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (co-edited with David W. Madden & Justus Nieland, 2011). ... Read more
Reviews for A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell
A Temporary Future provides a thought-provoking assessment of the novels—certainly much more than simply the “introduction” that O’Donnell claims it is—and, like any good work of criticism, it makes us eager to return to the novels themselves and read them in light of our new understanding.
English Studies
O’Donnell is the first to explore the complete works to ... Read more
English Studies
O’Donnell is the first to explore the complete works to ... Read more