[ebooktalk] Kate Atkinson
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:54:12 +0100
I have started reading Kate Atkinson's latest, I think it's called "LIfe After
Life", and I'm confused. Artisticly, it is a very clever concept - the main
character is born, dies at birth, then there is a time switch, the birth
happens again and she is saved in the nick of time. All through the book (Or
as far as I've got, anyway) she is faced with death, then there is a time
switch and she lives, but each time, the story goes back to just after her
birth. With so many adaptations to the story, and the need to continually
re-programme your idea of what happened and to whom, it all becomes extremely
complicated. I'm now finding myself torn in two - the intellectual (If so it
may be called) half of me feels I should persevere with the book, admiring the
author's ability to construct such a clever book. The peasant reader in me,
who loves reading in order to sit back and enjoy a good story feels that I
should forget the clever concept and abandon the book. I can't decide. It's
interesting, but ... maybe I need to read something else to escape and just
keep coming back to it now and again. Hmmm!
Trish.
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