Life After Life
by:
Kate Atkinson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385618670 (0385618670)
ASIN: 0385618670
Publish date: 2013-03-14
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
I have feelings about this book. Predominantly annoyance, because I really did not get this book and the message it tried to convey. I didn´t care about the theme of reincarnation or the philosophical musings that time is like a palimpsest, the only thing I did care about was the end after 600 excru...
Why, yes, it is appropriate that I finished this on Groundhog Day. I enjoyed all the different versions of Ursula's life. And I'm a big fan of stories about women in WWII.Library copy
I picked up 'Life After Life' in the winter a few years back. This was the first book I had read in months. At the time I was leaving a job so horrendous that I still shudder when I think about it. During my time in this hell I found I couldn't read books with the same satisfaction I usually do. E...
"There were people who saw TV dinners as the beginning of the end of civilization. (Did her robust defence of them indicate that perhaps she was of the same mind?) They obviously didn't live on their own. And really the beginning of the end of civilization had happened a long time ago. Sarajewo perh...
Read by Marguerite - Spans 1910-1965 England. A bit twee with some quaint colloquialisms. Rhythm and flow of new lives well executed. Surprising amount of depth.
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