Not the End of the World
2 journalers for this copy...
I'm not a fan of short stories but I do like Atkinson's style - so snapped this up when I saw it secondhand after many months of looking.
Read this some months ago so my memory of it is already a bit sketchy!
Quite enjoyable... some of the stories interlink which I like.
From Atkinson website;
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay?
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...
Quite enjoyable... some of the stories interlink which I like.
From Atkinson website;
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay?
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...
Released at the Marks Tey Reading Group meeting.
Journal Entry 4 by 
AnonymousFinder
at Colchester, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, December 30, 2010
AnonymousFinder at Colchester, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, December 30, 2010
Hi, it's Jane I got this book from the Marks Tey book club in November.
I quite enjoyed it but it was very strange, which I usually like but I found it unsatisfying as there didn't seem to be any real conclusions at the ends of the stories! I think intellectually it was way over my head with all the references to Greek myths so I think if I knew more about these I would have enjoyed it better.
I quite enjoyed it but it was very strange, which I usually like but I found it unsatisfying as there didn't seem to be any real conclusions at the ends of the stories! I think intellectually it was way over my head with all the references to Greek myths so I think if I knew more about these I would have enjoyed it better.
