Cloud Atlas (20th Anniv Ed Signed by Mitchell) (Ships from USA)
David Mitchell
From Bookcharmed Books IOBA, Roselle Park, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 24 October 2006
From Bookcharmed Books IOBA, Roselle Park, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 24 October 2006
About this Item
SIGNED BY DAVID MITCHELL directly to the title page. A true 1st printing of this breathtaking 20th anniversary edition in gorgeous gift-worthy condition. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author. Seller Inventory # 08084
Bibliographic Details
Title: Cloud Atlas (20th Anniv Ed Signed by ...
Publisher: Sceptre
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed
Edition: 1st Ed.
About this title
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .
Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
Structured rather akin to a Chinese puzzle or a set of Matrioshka dolls, there are dazzling shifts in genre and voice and the stories leak into each other with incidents and people being passed on like batons in a relay race. The 19th-century journals of an American notary in the Pacific that open the novel are subsequently unearthed 80 years later on by Frobisher in the library of the ageing, syphilitic maestro he's trying to fleece. Frobisher's waspish letters to his old Cambridge crony, Rufus Sexsmith, in turn surface when Rufus, (by the 1970s a leading nuclear scientist) is murdered. A novelistic account of the journalist Luisa Rey's investigation into Rufus' death finds its way to Timothy Cavendish, a London vanity publisher with an author who has an ingenious method of silencing a snide reviewer. And in a near-dystopian Blade Runner-esque future, a genetically engineered fast food waitress sees a movie based on Cavendish's unfortunate internment in a Hull retirement home. (Cavendish himself wonders how a director called Lars might wish to tackle his plight). All this is less tricky than it sounds, only the lone "Zachary" chapter, told in Pacific Islander dialect (all "dingos'n'ravens", "brekker" and "f'llowin'"s) is an exercise in style too far. Not all the threads quite connect but nonetheless Mitchell binds them into a quite spellbinding rumination on human nature, power, oppression, race, colonialism and consumerism. --Travis Elborough
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