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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

David Mitchell (new writer)

Cloud Atlas - 2004.

Apart from the central story (Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin After'), which is uninterrupted, each story breaks off abruptly half-way through, to be followed by the first half of the next story. The interrupted story then appears within the next one, with the protagonist reading or watching the first half of its text; for example, in "An Orison of Sonmi~451," Sonmi~451 describes watching a film about the life of Timothy Cavendish, but she is only able to watch 50 minutes before her story is also interrupted. Each story ends with its protagonist finding the second half of this story, which is then printed after it.

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