Ghostwritten

Mitchell, David

ISBN 10: 0679463046 / ISBN 13: 9780679463047

Published by Random House, 1999

About this Item

Available is a TRUE 1st ed/1st prtg, w/ complete numberline "23456789" and "First Edition" statement, of GHOSTWRITTEN by DAVID MITCHELL, author of CLOUD ATLAS. His debut novel, book was published in 1999 by Random House. Book and mylar protected dust jacket are FINE. Original price of $24.95 intact. A beautiful clean tight copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1680193654019

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghostwritten
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679463046
• ISBN 13: 9780679463047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space?
        A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions--to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea--that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective--strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

About the Author

David Mitchell lives and teaches in Hiroshima, Japan. He is currently working on his second novel. He is thirty-one years old.