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Black Swan Green
David Mitchell ISBN 9788496454521
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David Mitchell ISBN 9788496454521
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This book by David Mitchell came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy.
“green Swan Black Swan or something that's actually one of my favorites of his Black Swan green I think is what it's called”— Tim Ferriss
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