[bksvol-discuss] clarifying book
- From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:41:53 -0500
Hello.
A few weeks ago someone requested a book called "Atlas", by David Mitchell. As
I'm plowing through my pile of books from the library today, I found a book,
but I'm not sure if it's the requested one. In fact the author is David
Mitchell, but this says the title is "Cloud Atlas". Before I scan the book, I
wanted to make sure this was the same book. Below I have pasted the book jacket.
Sorry I haven't cleaned it up. Don't worry, My scans usually are a lot neater
than this, but since I'm scanning another book presently I didn't bother to
optimize the settings for this one page.
Tiff
Mitchell combines flat-out love of puzzles, a fceerfeye and a taste for
mind-bending philol and scientific speculation in the tradition
f^q? Umkerto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K.
£.";"' IHckvThi! result is brilliantly original fiction as pro-
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pit U-Jplayful. Now, in his new novel, Mitchell explores wtfli daring.artistry
fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from
the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended
by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins
to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite
Abruptly, Ac action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a
disinherited bisexual eomposerfinveigles his way into the household of an
"infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From
there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named
Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens
to claim her
life And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an
inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where
neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii
in the last days of history.
But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back
through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its
starting point/Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters
connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like
clouds across the sky.
As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen more unforgettable than
anything else you will this year, Cloud Atlas is a tour de force from one
IS.ffid8t gifted writers of the new century.
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