2006 semi-autobiographical novel written by David Mitchell
Black Swan Green
UK First edition cover
Author
David Mitchell
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Semi-autobiographical, Bildungsroman novel
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
April 2006
Media type
Print (Hardback)
Pages
294 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN
1-4000-6379-5 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC
61513194
Dewey Decimal
823/.92 22
LC Class
PR6063.I785 B58 2006
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical novel written by David Mitchell, published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK. The bildungsroman's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason Taylor. The novel is written from the perspective of Taylor and employs many teen colloquialisms and popular-culture references from early-1980s England.
Mitchell has the speech disorder of stammering, [1] and noted in 2011, "I'd probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green, narrated by a stammering 13 year old."[1]
^ ab"Lost for words" Archived January 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, David Mitchell, Prospect magazine, 23 February 2011, Issue #180
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