Mitchell’s intertextual gamesmanship-the recurring characters and so on-began to seem, as a friend said to me, ‘less like Yoknapatawpha and more like Marvel.’” Garner invokes the comic book publisher pejoratively but I think it’s the reason Mitchell’s enterprise is so unique and captivating. In his review of Slade House in the New York Times, Dwight Garner writes that, “Mr. And, it seems to me, he’s doing it unlike any other author before him. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet impresses at first for its seemingly radical departure from Mitchell’s other work, and then because it is so fantastic and romantic.īut as I read The Bone Clocks, and his latest novel Slade House, I realized that Mitchell now was after something grander and even more ambitious than any of his individual novels: this guy is going to connect all his books. Black Swan Green, at the opposite end of the spectrum, impresses with its intimacy and focus its main character, Jason, is one of my very favorite coming-of-age narrators, revealing a Mitchell who can also write tender, true character studies. Cloud Atlas impresses with the scope of its imagination and ambition. David Mitchell, even to his few detractors, is impressive.
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