Kate Atkinson
Autor/a de Life After Life
Sobre l'autor
Kate Atkinson was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee. She earned her Masters Degree from Dundee in 1974. She then went on to study for a doctorate in American Literature but she failed at the viva (oral examination) stage. After leaving the university, she took mostra'n més on a variety of jobs from home help to legal secretary and teacher. 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 Ewart Gladstone. It went on to be a Sunday Times bestseller. Since then, she has published another five novels, one play, and one collection of short stories. Her work is often celebrated for its wit, wisdom and subtle characterisation, and the surprising twists and plot turns. Her most recent work has featured the popular former detective Jackson Brodie. In 2009, she donated the short story Lucky We Live Now to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Atkinson's story was published in the 'Earth' collection. In March 2010, Atkinson appeared at the York Literature Festival, giving a world-premier reading from an early chapter from her forthcoming novel Started Early, Took My Dog, which is set mainly in the English city of Leeds. Atkinson's bestselling novel, Life after Life, has won numerous awards, including the COSTA Novel Award for 2013. The follow-up to Life After Life is A God in Ruins and was published in 2015. This title won a Costa Book Award 2015 in the novel category. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Kate Atkinson Photo: John Foley/Opale
Sèrie
Obres de Kate Atkinson
Bosom Buddies: Women's Stories about Friendship, Love, and Life (2003) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Life after Life 1 exemplars
Wentworth : Season 8 : Part 1 1 exemplars
Normal Rules Dont Apply 1 exemplars
Il regno della notte 1 exemplars
Celtic Treasure: Daily Scriptures and Prayer 1 exemplars
Lucky We Live Now - story 1 exemplars
Lineup 1 exemplars
Life After Life / Started Early, Took My Dog / Case Histories / One Good Turn / When Will There Be Good News? /… (2014) 1 exemplars
Affairs of the Heart 1 exemplars
Creepy Crawlies 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Col·laborador — 387 exemplars
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
Out of Line: Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1951-12-20
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- England
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- York, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Whitby, Yorkshire, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Educació
- University of Dundee (1974)
- Professions
- legal secretary
teacher
novelist - Relacions
- Hixon, Andy (partner or husband)
- Premis i honors
- British Book Award (Newcomer of the Year ∙ 1997)
E. M. Forster Award (1998)
Order of the British Empire (Member ∙ 2011) - Agent
- Peter Straus
- Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE - OCTOBER 2016 - ATKINSON & GOLDING a 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (octubre 2016)
"Life After Life": Is it worth a read? a Girlybooks (setembre 2015)
Life after Life - Kate Atkinson a Orange January/July (maig 2014)
Ressenyes
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British Mystery (2)
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Female Author (6)
100 New Classics (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
War Literature (1)
READ in 2023 (1)
Unread books (2)
Favorite Series (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Read in 2016 (1)
Reading 2014 (1)
Carole's List (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Family Drama (1)
Ryan's Books (1)
READ IN 2022 (1)
Netgalley Reads (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 35
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 45,079
- Popularitat
- #363
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 2,223
- ISBN
- 638
- Llengües
- 24
- Preferit
- 221
The opening story is based on a discrepancy. Two young urban single women, Charlene and Trudi, seem to be living in a world of luxurious consumerism against a background of earthquake, explosions, and sniper fire. The collection’s title brought to mind Skeeter Davis’s tear-jerker hit. Don’t they know?
It turns out they do know, but they are shutting the fact out by force of imagination. But that is only revealed in the last of the twelve stories. The stories in between are tales of magic realism based on antique myth. They led me to revise my original understanding of the title. For “end” means not only a conclusion but also finitude or boundary. The stories suggest that the day-to-day world we take in with our senses is not all there is.
But then, when the book title forms the final sentence, spoken by Trudi to Charlene, the original sense comes back with the full weight of irony. It’s a sentence we all use to ourselves and each other after some physical or emotional skinned knee. And it’s even true of the world at the end of the book, but not for these two starving, plague-stricken young women. A downer of a conclusion, it haunted me for hours after I finished the book.… (més)