I know I can‘t have the last word on how I’m interpreted but I will have the last word on what I meant.”
It’s the monster in the mirror … If it is an association it is subconscious. says things that I have too much tact to say. It’s a really ungrounded, megalomaniac me, with all my worst aspects. Some of the other resonances, such as that between Red Monkey and Amis’s Yellow Dog, are harder to explain away, as Zendik pointed out in the comments under a recent Guardian profile of Mitchell.Ĭhallenged at a recent Guardian event, Mitchell protested that Hershey was his own submerged alter ego: Mitchell hotly denies that there is any connection, insisting that Desiccated Embryos is not a riff on Amis’s Dead Babies, but is borrowed from a piano suite by Eric Satie, the embryos in question belonging not to human beings but to three lesser-known sea creatures.
"Jacket design: Peter Mendelsund and Oliver Munday" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.‘The correspondences, if such they be, are not exact’. On the rectos of the three pages following the last numbered page, there are an "Acknowledgments", a short "About the Author", and an "About the Type". Publication date and price from the shipping receipt of the verifier's copy. Copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, including the ISBN (978-1-4000-6567-7) and the LCCN (2014008517). Edition" stated on the copyright page, with a complete number line: "9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Includes a laid-in 20-page pamphlet containing an interview with the author. Housed in a fully clothbound custom slipcase with decorative titles. The book is identical to the trade edition, but with a bound-in illustrated signature sheet following the front loose endpaper bearing the statement "Powell's Books is proud to present this exclusive edition of David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks to Indiespensable subscribers.". This edition is for series subscribers only and limited to an unspecified number of pre-sold copies. Special Powell's Books "Indiespensable" edition, #49 in the series (stated in the laid-in pamphlet only).
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