Life After Life - Brossura

Atkinson, Kate

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385618689 ISBN 13: 9780385618687

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2013

Riassunto

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, she finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here isKate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

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Recensione:

"Kate Atkinson's audacious novel plays a virtuoso game with the nature of fiction...her best book to date and a worthy winner of a Costa Prize." (Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Kate Atkinson's stunning new novel, about a woman who lives through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz, and which asks: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0385618689
• ISBN 13: 9780385618687
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 480