David Mitchell -- Black Swan Green -- faulty?
- From: "Lee J. Moore" <subtextwhore@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:19:03 +0100
I've just received a review copy of Black Swan Green by David Mitchell from Random House in the USA (it's not released here in the UK until May 8th), and the instant I opened the parcel, I noticed that its pages haven't been guillotined at equal widths. I'm sure this is a fault, but given the symmetry of the 'faulty' page widths, it seems so deliberate that a tiny part of me wonders whether it's some kind of bizarre physical metaphor. Yes, I'm blushing when I ask because it seems like an odd conclusion to reach, but considering the complaints spawned by the abrupt, half-way-through-a-sentence ending of Adam Ewing's journal in Cloud Atlas, I'm not so sure. Many readers thought a printing error had occurred, but of course, it was a deliberate part of the structure.
I wonder if any US readers here in RAB have this book, or have maybe thumbed through it in a store? Obviously, I'm hardly going to return a readable, free review copy, but this *could* be relevant to the review.
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LJM
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