A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell(English, Hardcover, O'Donnell Patrick Professor)

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A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell(English, Hardcover, O'Donnell Patrick Professor) is written by O'Donnell Patrick Professor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1441171223 (ISBN 10) and 9781441171221 (ISBN 13).

Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan. Written for a wide constituency of readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell's main concerns-including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity-across the six novels published so far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie-writers whose works explore narrative in an age of globalization and cosmopolitanism. Patrick O'Donnell traces the through-lines of Mitchell's work from ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a chapter on each of the six novels, charts the evolution of Mitchell's fictional project.