Black Swan Green
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Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Swan Green canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Black Swan Green Context triple: [David Mitchell, notableWork, Black Swan Green]
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The Cement Garden
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British-German drama film, directed by Andrew Birkin and based on Ian McEwan’s novel, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in a dark story about siblings coping with isolation after their parents’ deaths.
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Coram Boy
Coram Boy is a stage play adapted from Jamila Gavin’s novel, depicting the intertwined lives of abandoned children and their benefactors in 18th-century England.
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C.
The Green Girl
The Green Girl is a celebrated late-19th-century portrait painting by American artist John White Alexander, known for its elegant depiction of a woman in flowing green attire and its refined, atmospheric style.
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D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is a nostalgic semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury that captures the magic and melancholy of a boy’s summer in a small Midwestern town.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Black Swan Green Target entity description: Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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A.
The Cement Garden
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British-German drama film, directed by Andrew Birkin and based on Ian McEwan’s novel, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in a dark story about siblings coping with isolation after their parents’ deaths.
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B.
Coram Boy
Coram Boy is a stage play adapted from Jamila Gavin’s novel, depicting the intertwined lives of abandoned children and their benefactors in 18th-century England.
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C.
The Green Girl
The Green Girl is a celebrated late-19th-century portrait painting by American artist John White Alexander, known for its elegant depiction of a woman in flowing green attire and its refined, atmospheric style.
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D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is a nostalgic semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury that captures the magic and melancholy of a boy’s summer in a small Midwestern town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | David Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| awardRecognition | longlisted for the Man Booker Prize (implied for Mitchell’s works; verify before use) ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Eve Taylor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jason Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement | autobiographical elements from David Mitchell’s life ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0340822784 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780340822784 ⓘ |
| languageVariant | British English ⓘ |
| linkedToOtherWorksBy |
shared characters with Cloud Atlas
ⓘ
shared characters with Ghostwritten ⓘ |
| literaryForm | realist fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jason Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of stammering
ⓘ
portrayal of 1980s British village life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 2006-04-13 ⓘ |
| pageCount | 294 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Cloud Atlas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistCharacteristic | stammer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Random House
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sceptre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | rural England ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1980s ⓘ |
| structure | thirteen interlinked chapters ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
adolescence
ⓘ
bullying ⓘ family relationships ⓘ identity ⓘ speech disorder ⓘ |
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