![]() The purposefully disjointed narrative follows 13-year-old Nathan Bishop as he tries to maintain his composure while maneuvering a house party through a Valium fog, thanks to pharmaceuticals filched from his high-strung mother, a divorced cellist.Īfter entering a door in an alleyway, Nathan notices right away something odd about their destination: “At last, I feel my Valium kicking in. The first section, “The Right Sort,” was composed as something of a publicity stunt, published in 140-character bits on Mitchell’s otherwise little-used Twitter stream as promotion for “The Bone Clocks.” In book form, its strengths are more evident than appeared online. ![]() Each section is narrated by a different protagonist in first-person, present-tense viewpoint. “Slade House” is structured like “The Bone Clocks” in miniature, with five sections set nine years apart. It is a dense but quick read, something that can be completed in a sitting or two. Mitchell’s new novel, “ Slade House,” arrives only a little more than a year after “The Bone Clocks.” Its physical format is compact, its page count low. ![]() Some critics could not abide the metaphysical superheroics of the penultimate section, in which the near-immortal Horologists faced off against the vampiric Anchorites - but few could deny the audacity of the narrative action or the skill with which it was choreographed. ![]()
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