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LIFE AFTER LIFE PB

Atkinson, Kate

Εκδότης Black Swan , ISBN 9780552779685


This book 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.

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This book 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.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Atkinson, Kate
  • Eκδότης Black Swan
  • ISBN 9780552779685
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100052966
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2014
  • Σελίδες 0
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 250 gr

Atkinson, Kate

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Από τις πιο σημαντικές σύγχρονες πεζογράφους, η Βρετανίδα Κέιτ Άτκινσον γεννήθηκε το 1951 στο Γιορκ. Σπούδασε αγγλική λογοτεχνία στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Νταντί. Για το πρώτο της μυθιστόρημα, "Στα παρασκήνια του μουσείου", τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο Whitbread το 1995. Το 1998 η Ακαδημία Τεχνών και Γραμμάτων των ΗΠΑ της απένειμε το βραβείο Ε.Μ. Φόρστερ. Για το μυθιστόρημά της "Ζωή μετά τη ζωή" ήταν υποψήφια στη βραχεία λίστα για το Women's Prize for Literature.

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