Number9Dream

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• I think I'm turning Japanese

  number9dream David Mitchell 422pp, Sceptre, £10 Buy it at a discount at BOL David Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten , was one of the most highly praised fiction debuts of recent times, and with unusual justice. It was impressive mainly for its ima ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• When Blade Runner meets Jack Kerouac

  number9dream David Mitchell Sceptre £10, pp419 Buy it at a discount at BOL There was a recent cinema advertisement for a mobile phone company in which every object in an urban landscape was represented only by the letters of its name. The world is no ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Was the Yakuza brutality really necessary?

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  Miroku said on Nov 1, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The hope of British fiction?

  Well, a startling phantasmagorical book taking the reader around modern Japan via a range of reality phases. I enjoyed this book immensely, especially around the significance of personal journeys for restoring meaning to the past, and how well-written text creates its own dynamic energy.

  Yes. Thi ... (continue)

  Well, a startling phantasmagorical book taking the reader around modern Japan via a range of reality phases. I enjoyed this book immensely, especially around the significance of personal journeys for restoring meaning to the past, and how well-written text creates its own dynamic energy.

  Yes. This book is remarkable, and it DOES restore my faith in British fiction. More cheerful than Overrated 'one story' McEwan, better crafted then Will Self, with heaps more emotional intelligence than Smug Barnes, and so much less pompous than Rushdie. Its closer to Sterne's 18th century fun run, Tristram Shandy, and modern day Tom Robbins (who is also a fine, albeit frenetic, writer).

  Read it.

  PS: 'number9dream" is taken from the title of a John Lennon song, on the 1974 album 'Walls and bridges'.

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  Ian Hodgson said on Sep 26, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 300 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1844568849
• ISBN-13: 9781844568840
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Pub date: Oct 02, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover

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