
2008 Longlist
Black Swan Green
ABOUT
THE BOOK
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor – covert stammerer and reluctant poet – anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn’t reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
The eternal question of “what it is to be a human being” laid out as an evocative narrative on growing pains and larger trials of life; bittersweet yet warm, profound yet entertaining, and exquisitely written.
Something new and shimmering on every page.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
England
Original Language
English
Publisher
Sceptre, Random House Inc.