Ghostwritten

(It's a nice little irony that Ghostwritten is bringing me to NY in October.)

David Mitchell discusses his first novel, Ghostwritten 2010

Ray SawhillMultinational Jest Its publisher says British novelist David Mitchell's much-touted debut, "Ghostwritten" -- revealing mysterious links among nine strangers in nine countries -- "will invite comparison" to David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest."

As The Pages Turn 2008

Will this one also be "Ghostwritten", or will it include crayons.

Second Palin book due in November 2010

Mitchell's first novel - written before he turned 30 - was called "Ghostwritten," and, like his more recent triumph, "Cloud Atlas," it's the kind of multi-stranded, intertextual narrative that automatically gets the label "experimental" slapped on it.

A 'Thousand Autumns' In The Land Of The Rising Sun 2010

Starting with "Ghostwritten" and "Number9Dream," Mitchell fused coincidence and fate, reality and fantasy in nested, refracted stories that could drive M.C. Escher mad.

Book review of "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet," a novel by David Mitchell 2010

In this episode the author reintroduces a minor character from his earlier novel "Ghostwritten" though here Timothy Cavendish who is that controversial bete-noir or writer's best friend - "vanity press" publisher - takes center stage in a darkly funny story set in the England of novel's time.

Masterpieces of the 00's decade: "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

For all its post-modern doominess, "Ghostwritten" may remind you of a '30s movie where, say, a millionaire, a shopgirl and a bum all get hold of the same silk scarf or some damn thing.

As The Pages Turn 2008

"Ghostwritten" reads like a series of predictable pop novels, craftily strung together but staffed by tired old standbys: a womanizing rock musician (London), a zombified cultist (Okinawa), a shy, jazz-loving record-store clerk (Tokyo), a spunkier-than-thou female physicist (Ireland).

As The Pages Turn 2008

Hedy Weiss: In "Ghostwritten," a Goodman Theatre commission that will receive its world premiere Monday, playwright Naomi IIzuka has spun the story of Susan, an American woman who travels to what the playwright describes as "a fabulist's version of Vietnam," where she strikes a bargain with a mysterious stranger.

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Now, in "Ghostwritten," a Goodman Theatre commission that will receive its world premiere Monday, Iizuka has spun the story of Susan, an American woman who travels to what the playwright describes as "a fabulist's version of Vietnam," where she strikes a bargain with a mysterious stranger.

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