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David mitchell, whose complex novel cloud atlas was adapted into a film last year, has quietly hit bestseller lists again as one of three authors of the reason i jump. Aug 24, 2004 a 12yearold boy is the sole survivor of a plane crasha study in before and after. Cloud atlas david mitchell works archive of our own. Feb 21, 2005 impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to watch.
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