Книга: Kate Atkinson «Life after Life»

Life after Life

Производитель: "Black Swan"

This is the winner of the Costa Novel Award. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life`s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Издательство: "Black Swan" (2013)

Формат: 110x175мм, 624 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-552-77968-5

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Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson (born 1951) is an English author.

Her life

She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. During her final year of this course, she was married for the first time. The marriage lasted only two years, but produced Atkinson's first daughter, Eve, who was born in 1975. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature which she failed at the viva stage. After leaving university, she took on a variety of miscellaneous jobs from home help to legal secretary and teacher. She lived in Whitby, Yorkshire for a time, but now lives in Edinburgh.

Her works

Her first novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum", won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year ahead of Salman Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh" and Roy Jenkins's biography of William Gladstone. Since then, she has published another four novels, one play, and one collection of short stories. She is a comic novelist whose style often juxtaposes mundane everyday life with fantastic magical events, a technique that contributes to her work's pervasive magic realism. She has frequently criticised the media's coverage of her work - when she won Whitbread, for example, it was the fact that she was a 'single mother' who lived outside London that garnered the most attention.

Published works

Novels

*"Behind the Scenes at the Museum" (1995)
*"Human Croquet" (1997)
*"Emotionally Weird" (2000)
*"Case Histories" (2004)
*"One Good Turn" (2006)
*"When Will There Be Good News" (2008)

Plays

*"Abandonment" (2000)

tory collections

*"Not the End of the World" (2002)

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/kateatkinson14/ The Wonderful Unofficial Kate Atkinson Website]
* [http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/ Official website]
* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/atkinsonkate/onegoodturn "One Good Turn" Reviews] at Metacritic
* [http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1397.html Kate Atkinson] talking about "One Good Turn" at [http://meettheauthor.co.uk MeetTheAuthor.co.uk]
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Источник: Kate Atkinson

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