Cloud Atlas

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Author: Mitchell, DavidTitle: Cloud AtlasBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 529Release Date: 2012Details: By the author of the thousand autumns of jacob de zoet, david mitchells be stselling and booker prize-shortlisted novel, one of richard & judys 100 books of the decade, cloud atlas has now been adapted for film the major motion picture, directed by the wachowskis and tom tykwer, stars tom hanks, halle berry, susan sarandon, jim sturgess, ben whishaw, jim broadbent and hugh grant the novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars belgium; a high-minded journalist in governor reagans california; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and zachry, a young pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of cloud atlas hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changes in ways great and small mitchells other novels are ghostwritten, black swan green and number9dream, all published by sceptre wwwsceptrebookscom facebook: sceptre books twitter: sceptrebooksEAN: 9781444761788Package Dimensions: Height: 7.0866 Inches, Length: 4.40944 Inches, Weight: 0.66138674281139 Pounds, Width: 1.37795 InchesLanguages: en Show more