Life After Life
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Kate Atkinson
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Time Travel
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Author
Kate Atkinson
Pages
544
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2013-04-02
ISBN
0316230804 9780316230803
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I thought the resurrections were very interesting, but in the end, wondered what the point of the story was. I was struck by several things. 1) the notion that the character could have killed Hitler, 2) the bleak storylines in which she was pregnant and what her life looked like after that. 3) the thought that she learned to live longer after each resurrection, avoiding or making decisions differently at various steps in the road, even without explicit understanding.<br/><br/> I'd be interested in knowing what idea or concept prompted Atkinson to write the story."
"Could not get into it"
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Britney Hebert
"I really enjoyed this novel!"
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Andrea Jaffray
"This is one of those books that you either love or extremely dislike. I was the latter. I felt it should have been called, "life after life after life after life…". The story line was more of an excuse for the author to recreate do-overs instead of just getting the story straight from the get go. Just my opinion."