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Kate Atkinson

Life After Life - Back Bay Books - 560 pages

"One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Ursula's world is in turmoil, facing the unspeakable evil of the two greatest wars in history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of civilization -- if only she has the chance?Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.

970

ISBN: 9780316176491

Standard No.: 868428068

LCCN: 2013362319

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historical Fiction

LC Class. No.: PR6051.T56 L54

Dewey Class. No.: 823