Not The End Of The World (Paperback)
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Not The End Of The World (Paperback)

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Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 02/06/2003
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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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“Pleasingly unsettling”

A collection of linked short stories - wry, surreal, and pleasingly unsettling, the mostly ill-fated cast of characters with their unfortunate beginnings and ignominious endings put me in mind of the Gashlycrumb... More

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