6/12/2023 0 Comments The thousand autumns![]() ![]() At the bottom of a capacious box of tricks that allowed him to mimic any voice in perfect pitch, to turn on a sixpence between genres, to master borrowed style after style, lay reserves of charm and grace that lent a winning lightness to his planet-spanning tales. After a middle-English upbringing and eight formative years as a teacher in Hiroshima, David Mitchell came back from Japan not merely armed with a repertoire of writerly skills that had his peers either loudly singing his praises or silently spitting with envy. When, in 1999, Ghostwritten detonated in a millennial fireburst of invention and ingenuity, its young author fast became a name to drop when discussion turned to the future of fiction. ![]()
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