The Bone Clocks (Signed Limited Edition)

MITCHELL, David

ISBN 10: 1473604885 / ISBN 13: 9781473604889

Published by Sceptre, London, 2014

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 595 pages. Number 302 from an edition of 500 copies. A later novel from the author of the classic "Cloud Atlas." A tight near fine copy in a near fine slipcase with some very minute wear. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Mitchell on the limitation page.

Seller Inventory # 209292

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bone Clocks (Signed Limited Edition)
• Publisher: Sceptre, London
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473604885
• ISBN 13: 9781473604889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 3.375 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Each of these slipcased limited editions is signed and numbered, and has a ribbon marker and specially illustrated endpapers. With a print run of just 500, this is a treat for collectors.

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking . . .

The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon.

Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this kaleidoscopic novel crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.

About the Author

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism.

He lives with in Ireland with his family.