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Behind the Scenes at the Museumby Kate AtkinsonISBN 1417646608 (1-4176-4660-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'Book summary:"I exist!" exclaims Ruby Lennox upon her conception in 1951, setting the tone for this humorous and poignant first novel in which Ruby at once celebrates and mercilessly skewers her middle-class English family. Peppered with tales of flawed family traits passed on from previous generations, Ruby's narrative examines the lives in her disjointed clan, which revolve around the family pet shop. But beneath the antics of her philandering father, her intensely irritable mother, her overly emotional sisters, and a gaggle of eccentric relatives are darker secrets--including an odd "feeling of something long forgotten"--that will haunt Ruby for the rest of her life. Kate Atkinson earned a Whitbread Prize in 1995 for this fine first effort. [via]
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- Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 1568953739 (1-56895-373-9)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 0552996181 (0-552-99618-1)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 0745138403 (0-7451-3840-3)
Hardcover, Paragon House Publishers - Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 0745153798 (0-7451-5379-8)
Hardcover, Windsor Publications - Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 1417646608 (1-4176-4660-8)
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- Behind the Scenes at the Museum: ISBN 1568953739 (1-56895-373-9)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Special Salesby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552213462 (0-552-21346-2)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Case Historiesby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552153109 (0-552-15310-9)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Emotionally Weirdby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0754024083 (0-7540-2408-3)
Softcover, Chivers Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emotionally Weird'Book summary:Readers who survive the first 20 pages of this dense and playful novel, with its three different openings, constant jokes, and crowded cast of characters, will find themselves rewarded with a leisurely postmodern romp through the student ferment and bodily indulgences of the early 1970s. Although the publisher has called Emotionally Weird a comic novel, it is essentially unclassifiable, both further-reaching and less "meaningful" than it first appears. Kate Atkinson's book begins with chapter 1 of a bad murder mystery being written by Effie Andrews for a creative-writing course at the University of Dundee in 1972. But the action soon shifts to a wintry island in the Hebrides, where Effie is trying to elicit the story of her parentage from her single mother, Nora, while spinning a humorous first-person narrative of her college life. Only near the end of the book does she finally wrench the story from her mother: Effie's bizarre origins; the identity of her father; and the whole unlikely tale of her mother's family.
Like a Borgesian labyrinth, with other stories thrown in, including a laughably convenient introduction of magic realism, it is impossible to know what to take seriously--or "jocoseriously," to paraphrase another of Atkinson's influences: the Joyce of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In her third novel, much of Atkinson's humor is incidental, even parenthetical. (We are told in passing, for example, that Effie's dissertation is called "Henry James: Man or Maze?") She is at her best when introducing her eccentric characters, such as the elderly Professor Cousins, who is sometimes lucid, sometimes not. "As with anyone in the department," Effie explains, "it wasn't always easy to distinguish between the two states. The university's strict laws of tenure dictated that he had to be dead at least three months before he could be removed from behind his desk." Professor Cousins, like the author, enjoys word games along the order of those in Alice in Wonderland, and Atkinson's use of Scottish idiom comes to function as a sort of word game. She also brings in a few killjoys (a militant feminist, a militant Christian, a literary theorist) to complicate an already loopy narrative and to spike the punch.
Janice smelt of piety and coal tar soap. She had recently become a Christian, a neophyte of a student Christian fellowship whose members roamed the corridors of Airlie, Belmont and Chalmers Halls looking for likely converts (the afraid, the alone, the abandoned) and those who needed to use the Bible to fill in the spaces where their personalities should have been.
As Emotionally Weird develops, Atkinson relies more and more on the postmodern gag of characters commenting on the unfolding action. There is no telling how she finally draws these disparate threads onto a single spool, but in the end, even the slightest subplots are neatly tied up and the most transient characters accounted for. --Regina Marler [via]
Human Croquetby Kate AtkinsonISBN 055299619X (0-552-99619-X)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Human Croquet - 36 Copy Binby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0733807070 (0-7338-0707-0)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Not the End of the Worldby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552771058 (0-552-77105-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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One Good Turnby Kate AtkinsonISBN 1597224626 (1-59722-462-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Good Turn'Book summary:Kate Atkinson began her career with a winner: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which captured the Whitbread First Novel Award. She followed that success with four other books, the last of which was Case Histories, her first foray into the mystery-suspense-detective genre. In that book she introduced detective Jackson Brodie, who reopened three cold cases and ended up a millionaire. A great deal happened in-between.
In One Good Turn Jackson returns, following his girlfriend, Julia the actress, to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. He manages to fall into all kinds of trouble, starting with witnessing a brutal attack by "Honda Man" on another man stuck in a traffic jam. Is this road rage or something truly sinister? Another witness is Martin Canning, better known as Alex Blake, the writer. Martin is a shy, withdrawn, timid sort who, in a moment of unlikely action, flings a satchel at the attacker and spins him around, away from his victim. Gloria Hatter, wife of Graham, a millionaire property developer who is about to have all his secrets uncovered, is standing in a nearby queue with a friend when the attack takes place. There is nastiness afoot, and everyone is involved. Nothing is coincidental.
Through a labyrinthine plot which is hard to follow because the points of view are constantly changing, the real story is played out, complete with Russians, false and mistaken identities, dead bodies, betrayals, and all manner of violent encounters. Jackson gets pulled in to the investigation by Louise Monroe, a police detective and mother of an errant 14-year-old. There might be yet another novel to follow which will take up the connection those two forge in this book. Or, Jackson might just go back to France and feed apples to the local livestock.
Atkinson has written an enjoyable and lively story of no degrees of separation among the most unlikely cast of characters. Some plot lines have been left to drift, but it does hang together in a satisfying fashion. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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- One Good Turn: ISBN 0385662610 (0-385-66261-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - One Good Turn: ISBN 0385608004 (0-385-60800-4)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - One Good Turn: ISBN 0385662602 (0-385-66260-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited - One Good Turn: ISBN 0552216100 (0-552-21610-0)
Hardcover, RHCB - One Good Turn: ISBN 1597224626 (1-59722-462-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
- One Good Turn: ISBN 0385662610 (0-385-66261-0)
One Good Turn: A Formatby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552155330 (0-552-15533-0)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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One Good Turn Tesco Exclusiveby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552217891 (0-552-21789-1)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Untitledby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0552997358 (0-552-99735-8)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Untitled Novel 3 (Endurance)by Kate AtkinsonISBN 0385608012 (0-385-60801-2)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Untitled Novel 4 (Polar Opposites)by Kate AtkinsonISBN 0385608020 (0-385-60802-0)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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The Watsonsby Jane Austen, Kate AtkinsonISBN 1843911450 (1-84391-145-0)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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When Will There Be Good News Airports/Exportby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0385614519 (0-385-61451-9)
Hardcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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