Not The End Of The World (Paperback)
Kate Atkinson (author)Published: 02/06/2003
Atkinson’s first collection of short stories is a typically mercurial melding of the mundane and the magical delivered in sparkling, involving prose from a consummate storyteller. From eternal life to a plethora of fish, these miniatures are a delightful, constantly surprising bounty.
A stunning collection of short stories by the three-times Costa prizewinner
Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality.
From Charlene and Trudi, obsessively making lists while bombs explode softly in the streets outside, to gormless Eddie, maniacal cataloguer of fish, and Meredith Zane who may just have discovered the secret to eternal life, each of these stories shows that when the worlds of material existence and imagination collide, anything is possible.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552771054
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 230 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Exceptional...Sharp, witty and completely compelling - Daily Mail
I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect...left me so fizzing with admiration - Observer
An exceptionally funny, quirky and bold writer - Independent on Sunday
Moving and funny, and crammed with incidental wisdom - Sunday Times
Inventive and moving, these are truly tales for the new millennium - Good Book Guide
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