Black Swan Green

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 371, [7]. Publisher's forest green boards, lettered in silver foil to spine, illustrated endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Mitchell's fourth novel. Longlisted for the 2006 MAN Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award. A New York Times Notable Book. Selected as one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists for 2003. A coming of age novel, chronicling a year in the life of Jason Taylor, an imaginative 13-year-old who stammers, writes poetry, worries about his reputation among his peers, and has a knack for encountering the oddest people. "[A] brilliant new novel." –The New York Times Book Review