I kept looking for some sign of her individuality and her humanity, but really never saw it. In all the later episodes, she is incredibly flat. The problem is that Holly absolutely comes alive in the first episode: beautifully narrated and wonderfully written.
It makes sense to have different narrators for different episodes, since many of the stories are told by other characters. In the other episodes, someone else's story is told, though Holly Sykes is always a character in their stories. The character around whom the book is structured is Holly Sykes, who we meet in her own voice in the first and last decades of her life. But the narration was nevertheless a major problem for me. I sort of worship at the altar of David Mitchell, so of course I loved this book. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list - all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world.įrom the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves - even the ones who are not yet born. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics - and their enemies. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people", Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena.
His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit - it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.įollowing a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. From the Hardcover edition.David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list-all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit-it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable. David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist.
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