A God in Ruins
by:
Kate Atkinson (author)
In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th...
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In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to fa
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780316176507 (0316176508)
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
War,
World War II,
Fiction,
Historical
I would have given this book 3.5 stars, but Atkinson's writing could make even the most banal storyline compelling. Honestly, I felt like this novel could have used more editing, but hey, I picked it because I liked Life After Life, and I also love a big fat paperback. Some characters, (looking at y...
Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion.Have you ever read a book that you hated to put down but also hated to keep reading because you couldn’t bear the thought of reaching the end? That’s how I felt reading Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, the comp...
Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion.Have you ever read a book that you hated to put down but also hated to keep reading because you couldn’t bear the thought of reaching the end? That’s how I felt reading Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, the comp...
A companion to Life After Life. Atkinson's plotting and writing and magical realism, all of it just gets better and better.Library copy
Reading Life After Life was such an odd and wonderful experience that I was curious about what Kate Atkinson would do in the companion novel, A God in Ruins. Rather than a post-structuralist and philosophical fictional biography, Atkinson gives us a meandering bildungsroman in A God in Ruins. It’s d...
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