[ebooktalk] Re: Kate Atkinson
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:44:59 +0100
I read this recently Trish and really enjoyed it. After a while you forget
about the conceit and just go with the flow of Ursula's lives. Please stick
with it.
On 11 Jun 2013, at 23:54, Trish Talbot wrote:
> 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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