"ALL THE DRAMA AND INADVERTENT COMEDY OF THE ONSET OFADOLESCENCE ARE BRILLIANTLY LAID BARE....A DECEPTIVELY EASY READ, AT TIME UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY" (JOEL RICKETT, EVENING STANDARD)From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan 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.