The bone clocks : a novel / David Mitchell.

Author/creator Mitchell, David author.
Format Book
EditionFirst U.S. edition.
PublicationNew York : Random House, [2014]
Description624 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Mystics--Fiction.
Imaginary wars and battles--Fiction.

Abstract Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old 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. 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. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics -- and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. 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. 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. 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.
Genre/formScience fiction.
LCCN 2014008517
ISBN1400065674 (hardback)
ISBN9781400065677 (hardback)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR6063 .I785 B66 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner General Stacks PR6063 .I785 B66 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold