num_pages: 371
description: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
language: English
title: Black Swan Green
titlecomplete: Black Swan Green
characters: Jason Taylor, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Mark Badbury, Hugo Lamb
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 41541
places: Worcestershire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Sceptre