The showmanship is exhaustive, but like watching a circus ringmaster presiding over too many stunts and illusions, it can also be exhausting.Ĭloud Atlas, Mitchell’s most famous book, is a sextet of novellas-each told in their own literary genre in a different corner of the world-that connect in chronological, and then anti-chronological, order: 1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1. If David Mitchell isn’t the most talented novelist of his generation, is there any doubt that he is the most multi-talented? He is, at his best, a superior writer to Jonathan Franzen, a better storyteller than Michael Chabon, more wickedly clever than Jennifer Egan, nearly as fluent as Junot Diaz in multiple dialects, and as gifted as Alice Munro at catching 10,000-pixel snapshots of characters in quick drive-bys.
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