

Number9Dream
Author: David Mitchell
Narrator: William Rycroft
Unabridged: 16 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/05/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: David Mitchell
Narrator: William Rycroft
Unabridged: 16 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/05/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
English born author, David Stephen Mitchell is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Southport and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended Hanley Castle High School. He also attended and graduated from the University of Kent, with a degree in English and American literature. He then completed his M.A. in Comparative Literature.
Mitchell has lived in different areas of the world. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan where he taught English for eight years. He then returned to England to focus his efforts on writing, and became financially capable of earning a living with his writing.
Mitchell has awards and best sellers from his body of work: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, Ghostwritter and The Bone Clocks. After the release of his novel adapted for screen, Cloud Atlas, Mitchell became a screenwriter. In collaboration with others, he wrote the series finale of the television series, Sense8, and for the film Matrix 4. He and his wife live in Ireland with their two children.
'Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it.' Like the song by John Lennon which inspired the title of this novel, David Mitchell plays with the fusion of dreams and reality as he sends the reader spiraling through the chimerical passages of Number9dream. This second novel is a departure from......more
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