Cloud Atlas - SIGNED

David Mitchell (David Stephen Mitchell)

ISBN 10: 0340822775 / ISBN 13: 9780340822777

Published by Sceptre / Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004

About this Item

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 529, [3]. Publisher's maroon cloth blocked in turquoise foil to spine; green decorative endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Kai Clements and Sunny (priced at £16.99 to front flap). With the original wrap-around band. Signed by Mitchell to title-page with his characteristic squiggle. Author's third book. Short-listed for the 2004 Man Booker Prize as well as the Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. Listed at no. 9 in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. Six interlocking stories, encompassing a surfeit of genres, and spanning everything, from nineteenth century exploration to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In a 2019 interview with the Guardian, Mitchell said he had "a wish to see how many narratives I could embed, in a fractal sort of way, in a single novel." Basis for the 2012 Wachowski siblings' and Tom Tykwer's film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, and Hugh Grant. "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it modern classics." -Dave Eggers. 927.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cloud Atlas - SIGNED
• Publisher: Sceptre / Hodder and Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340822775
• ISBN 13: 9780340822777
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: As new
• Dust Jacket Condition: As new
• Signed: signed

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Synopsis

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

From the Inside Flap

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists 2003" issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.