A God in Ruins: A Novel
Autor Kate Atkinsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2016
One of the Best Books of 2015--TIME, NPR,Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune,The Christian Science Monitor,The Seattle Times,The Kansas City Star,Kirkus,Bookpage, Hudson Booksellers, AARP
The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestsellerLife After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn).
"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."
Kate Atkinson's dazzlingLife After Lifeexplored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again.
A GOD IN RUINS tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather-as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A GOD IN RUINS proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316176507
ISBN-10: 0316176508
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316176508
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Kate
Atkinson
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the
internationally
bestselling
author
of
eight
novels,
includingCase
Histories,One
Good
Turn,When
Will
There
Be
Good
News?,
Started
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Took
My
Dog,
andLife
After
Life.She
lives
in
Edinburgh.
Recenzii
PRAISE FOR A GOD IN RUINS:
"Atkinson isn't just telling a story: she's deconstructing, taking apart the notion of how we believe stories are told. Using narrative tricks that range from the subtlest sleight of hand to direct address, she makes us feel the power of storytelling not as an intellectual conceit, but as a punch in the gut."—Publishers Weekly
"A grown-up, elegant fairy tale...a humane vision of people in all their complicated splendor."—Kirkus
"She also continues to write, as she did in Life after Life, about the savagery of war in clarion prose that is graphic in detail and possessed of a singular melancholy. And whether it is the stoic Teddy, his practical wife, his unbelievably selfish daughter, or his neglected grandchildren, every one of Atkinson's characters will, at one moment or another, break readers' hearts."—Booklist
"A novel so sublime I would nominate it to represent all books in the Art Olympics. The afterword deserves a literary prize all to itself. It is, as claimed on the sumptuous proof, even better than Life After Life."—The Bookseller
"Only as the book unfolds is each character more fully revealed. Ms. Atkinson's artistry in making this happen is marvelously delicate and varied."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"If you loved Atkinson's Life After Life, you're in luck. If you're one of the, say, five people who didn't read it: You're still in luck--Atkinson is a master at the top of her game. A quiet, moving portrait of a guy navigating life's small pleasures and painful failures."—Marie Claire
"Gorgeous, thought-provoking...once again, Atkinson explores the concept of paths not taken versus those that are. Her hero's journey has its trials...but also joys and deep love. Quiet, humble Teddy is easy to root for. At the end of this tender story (a weeper, by the way), you won't want to let him go."—Good Housekeeping
"Studded with poetry and song, Atkinson's combination of wartime and family drama evokes a lost era, while also showing how World War II helped bring that time to a close. Teddy witnesses the breakdown of class prejudice through camaraderie, the slide from prudishness to promiscuity, and the destruction of the flower-filled meadows he knew in his youth to make way for crops to feed a hungry country. Simultaneously, Atkinson illustrates the difficult transition from wartime to peacetime."—Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness
A "dazzling novel."—People
A "rich and enthralling read...Atkinson does a skillful job of interweaving history and fiction. Even more impressively, she combines a brilliantly rendered traditional narrative and warmly believable characters with a postmodern sense of the nature of fiction, the story aware of itself as story."—Colette Bancroft, The Tampa Bay Times
"A sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family, and you remember what a big, old-school novel can do."—Tom Perotta, New York Times Book Review
"Atkinson's genre-bending novels have garnered critical praise, but nothing on the order of a Rushdie, or even an Ian McEwan. A God in Ruins should change that."—Amy Gentry, The Chicago Tribune
"Atkinson writes the way LeBron dunks or Stephen Hawking theorizes; she can't help but be brilliant."
—Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Transcendent."—Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
"a staggeringly gorgeous book, offering through the story of one small, good, imperfect life, the chance to grieve and cherish so many more."—Ellis Avery, Boston Globe
"random, miraculous, and frightening"—Helen T. Veronogos, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Ms. Atkinson rises beautifully to the challenge of dramatizing the raids, capturing the virtually suicidal nature of these operations in muscular, unsentimental prose."—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"beautifully wrought, deeply felt scenes"—Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times
"Reading A GOD IN RUINS feels like encountering a series of perfect scenes from the past half century, jumbled up and spiced with wit and drama. By the end, the point the novel makes through its shuffled deck structure becomes clear, and it's a moving one."—Jenny Shank, The Dallas Morning News
"I've mostly recovered from the shock of it, but I advise you to never play poker with Atkinson for real money."—Jim Higgins, The Sunday Journal Sentinel
"There is a bit of trickery here, as it turns out, as philosophical as it is novelistic, but the book's pleasures--and it's accomplishments--are ultimately more remarkable that the twist the story finally takes."—Ellen Akins, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Kate Atkinson's intelligence and understanding of humanity informs every page...The reader will at times need to rest the book for a few moments to recover before plunging ahead. It might help, too, to have a box of tissues handy."—Jonathan Rickard, New York Journal of Books
"A novel that takes its place in the line of powerful works about young men and war, stretching from Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage to Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds and Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk."—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
"A sprawling, epic novel...A God in Ruins expresses the ways lives can be seen close up, in seemingly unconnected individual moments, or from a distance, as a series of through-lines."—Tasha Robinson, NPR.org
"...more subtly postmodern, shifting between past, present, and future in ways both subversive and perfectly organic."—Boris Kachka, New York Magazine
"As finely crafted as Life After Life...Having spun one great novel out of second, third and 50th chances, she's spun another out of the fact that in reality, we get only one."—Lev Grossman, Time
"Atkinson's strong and evocative turn of phrase, which is both beautiful and strangely conversational, pull readers in, with solid plotting and deep affection for her characters keeping them reading...Teddy Todd survived the war and then he died and, in between, he lived, and every moment is wonderful, even if it was never meant to be."—Kate Erbland, Bustle
"A God in Ruins bills itself as a companion piece to Life After Life, rather than a sequel. In trying this, Atkinson joins some of the most innovative and impressive authors on both sides of the pond, including Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Jane Smiley, who are busy constructing high-brow trilogies and ambitious spinoffs of their own. Atkinson more than lives up to the challenge and proves herself worthy of her company."—Ester Bloom, BarnesandNoble.com
"A God in Ruins is billed as a companion book to Life After Life. Really though, it stands alone in achievement. It's fiction at it's best."—Sherryl Connelly, The New York Daily News
"A brilliant follow-up."—Katy Waldman, Slate
"Masterful."—Ray Palen, Bookreporter
"Atkinson is a master of structure."—Margaret Quamme, The Columbus Dispatch
"This is that age-old story--man's fall from grace, and his endless struggle to regain it--made wonderfully, achingly new."—Tricia Springstubb, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A hugely impressive and immensely moving novel. Somehow it feels effortless, although clearly that is not the case...Fiction of the very best kind."
—Erica Wagner, New Statesman
"A novel for people who love novels."—Tom Beer, Newsday
"Ms. Atkinson's thrumming imagination runs on premium prose, a perfect vehicle for conveying characters to new futures."—Susan Balée, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A God in Ruins is Kate Atkinson's brilliant follow-up to Life After Life...This time, Atkinson has written what looks like a big, old-fashioned book, with just enough high-concept risks to make readers start riffling back through the pages as soon as they've done...readers...are never quite in the same condition when they finish a book. When it comes to a novel like A God in Ruins, that change will always be for the better."
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor
"A God in Ruins is another triumph for Kate Atkinson...A God in Ruins has a compelling narrative, a myriad of unforgettable scenes, and a bit of the old Atkinson playful craftiness at the very end, a mischievous Ian McEwan-like investigation into the curious ways of fiction writers. Altogether dazzling, A God in Ruins is my pick for the best (so far) novel of 2015."
—Linda Wolfe, Fab Over Fifty
"Magnificent...Atkinson fluidly executes these chronological loop-de-loops, leaving a reader to marvel at that most banal of epiphanies--how fast life goes by."
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"
"This follow up [to Life After Life] tracks Ursula's brother, Teddy, a favorite son who flies an RAF bomber during the Second World War and remains kind, thoughtful, and patient through a life of quiet sadness...Teddy, unlike his sister, lives only one life, but Atkinson's deft handling of time, as she jumps from boyhood to old age and back, is impressive."—The New Yorker
"will leave you turning back the pages, wanting to live it again, mixing up past and present in a delightful bold manner."
—Natalie Serber, The Sunday Oregonian
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. Elegantly structured and beautifully told, it recounts the story of Teddy Todd, the brother of the protagonist of Atkinson's 2013 novel, Life After Life, in his attempt to live a 'good, quiet life' in the 20th century. Characteristically perceptive and poignant, like its predecessor it also gives a vivid and often thrilling account of life during the second world war--seen this time from the air rather than the streets of London."
—Paula Hawkins, Author of The Girl on the Train
"Atkinson isn't just telling a story: she's deconstructing, taking apart the notion of how we believe stories are told. Using narrative tricks that range from the subtlest sleight of hand to direct address, she makes us feel the power of storytelling not as an intellectual conceit, but as a punch in the gut."—Publishers Weekly
"A grown-up, elegant fairy tale...a humane vision of people in all their complicated splendor."—Kirkus
"She also continues to write, as she did in Life after Life, about the savagery of war in clarion prose that is graphic in detail and possessed of a singular melancholy. And whether it is the stoic Teddy, his practical wife, his unbelievably selfish daughter, or his neglected grandchildren, every one of Atkinson's characters will, at one moment or another, break readers' hearts."—Booklist
"A novel so sublime I would nominate it to represent all books in the Art Olympics. The afterword deserves a literary prize all to itself. It is, as claimed on the sumptuous proof, even better than Life After Life."—The Bookseller
"Only as the book unfolds is each character more fully revealed. Ms. Atkinson's artistry in making this happen is marvelously delicate and varied."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"If you loved Atkinson's Life After Life, you're in luck. If you're one of the, say, five people who didn't read it: You're still in luck--Atkinson is a master at the top of her game. A quiet, moving portrait of a guy navigating life's small pleasures and painful failures."—Marie Claire
"Gorgeous, thought-provoking...once again, Atkinson explores the concept of paths not taken versus those that are. Her hero's journey has its trials...but also joys and deep love. Quiet, humble Teddy is easy to root for. At the end of this tender story (a weeper, by the way), you won't want to let him go."—Good Housekeeping
"Studded with poetry and song, Atkinson's combination of wartime and family drama evokes a lost era, while also showing how World War II helped bring that time to a close. Teddy witnesses the breakdown of class prejudice through camaraderie, the slide from prudishness to promiscuity, and the destruction of the flower-filled meadows he knew in his youth to make way for crops to feed a hungry country. Simultaneously, Atkinson illustrates the difficult transition from wartime to peacetime."—Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness
A "dazzling novel."—People
A "rich and enthralling read...Atkinson does a skillful job of interweaving history and fiction. Even more impressively, she combines a brilliantly rendered traditional narrative and warmly believable characters with a postmodern sense of the nature of fiction, the story aware of itself as story."—Colette Bancroft, The Tampa Bay Times
"A sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family, and you remember what a big, old-school novel can do."—Tom Perotta, New York Times Book Review
"Atkinson's genre-bending novels have garnered critical praise, but nothing on the order of a Rushdie, or even an Ian McEwan. A God in Ruins should change that."—Amy Gentry, The Chicago Tribune
"Atkinson writes the way LeBron dunks or Stephen Hawking theorizes; she can't help but be brilliant."
—Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Transcendent."—Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
"a staggeringly gorgeous book, offering through the story of one small, good, imperfect life, the chance to grieve and cherish so many more."—Ellis Avery, Boston Globe
"random, miraculous, and frightening"—Helen T. Veronogos, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Ms. Atkinson rises beautifully to the challenge of dramatizing the raids, capturing the virtually suicidal nature of these operations in muscular, unsentimental prose."—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"beautifully wrought, deeply felt scenes"—Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times
"Reading A GOD IN RUINS feels like encountering a series of perfect scenes from the past half century, jumbled up and spiced with wit and drama. By the end, the point the novel makes through its shuffled deck structure becomes clear, and it's a moving one."—Jenny Shank, The Dallas Morning News
"I've mostly recovered from the shock of it, but I advise you to never play poker with Atkinson for real money."—Jim Higgins, The Sunday Journal Sentinel
"There is a bit of trickery here, as it turns out, as philosophical as it is novelistic, but the book's pleasures--and it's accomplishments--are ultimately more remarkable that the twist the story finally takes."—Ellen Akins, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Kate Atkinson's intelligence and understanding of humanity informs every page...The reader will at times need to rest the book for a few moments to recover before plunging ahead. It might help, too, to have a box of tissues handy."—Jonathan Rickard, New York Journal of Books
"A novel that takes its place in the line of powerful works about young men and war, stretching from Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage to Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds and Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk."—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
"A sprawling, epic novel...A God in Ruins expresses the ways lives can be seen close up, in seemingly unconnected individual moments, or from a distance, as a series of through-lines."—Tasha Robinson, NPR.org
"...more subtly postmodern, shifting between past, present, and future in ways both subversive and perfectly organic."—Boris Kachka, New York Magazine
"As finely crafted as Life After Life...Having spun one great novel out of second, third and 50th chances, she's spun another out of the fact that in reality, we get only one."—Lev Grossman, Time
"Atkinson's strong and evocative turn of phrase, which is both beautiful and strangely conversational, pull readers in, with solid plotting and deep affection for her characters keeping them reading...Teddy Todd survived the war and then he died and, in between, he lived, and every moment is wonderful, even if it was never meant to be."—Kate Erbland, Bustle
"A God in Ruins bills itself as a companion piece to Life After Life, rather than a sequel. In trying this, Atkinson joins some of the most innovative and impressive authors on both sides of the pond, including Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Jane Smiley, who are busy constructing high-brow trilogies and ambitious spinoffs of their own. Atkinson more than lives up to the challenge and proves herself worthy of her company."—Ester Bloom, BarnesandNoble.com
"A God in Ruins is billed as a companion book to Life After Life. Really though, it stands alone in achievement. It's fiction at it's best."—Sherryl Connelly, The New York Daily News
"A brilliant follow-up."—Katy Waldman, Slate
"Masterful."—Ray Palen, Bookreporter
"Atkinson is a master of structure."—Margaret Quamme, The Columbus Dispatch
"This is that age-old story--man's fall from grace, and his endless struggle to regain it--made wonderfully, achingly new."—Tricia Springstubb, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A hugely impressive and immensely moving novel. Somehow it feels effortless, although clearly that is not the case...Fiction of the very best kind."
—Erica Wagner, New Statesman
"A novel for people who love novels."—Tom Beer, Newsday
"Ms. Atkinson's thrumming imagination runs on premium prose, a perfect vehicle for conveying characters to new futures."—Susan Balée, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A God in Ruins is Kate Atkinson's brilliant follow-up to Life After Life...This time, Atkinson has written what looks like a big, old-fashioned book, with just enough high-concept risks to make readers start riffling back through the pages as soon as they've done...readers...are never quite in the same condition when they finish a book. When it comes to a novel like A God in Ruins, that change will always be for the better."
—Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor
"A God in Ruins is another triumph for Kate Atkinson...A God in Ruins has a compelling narrative, a myriad of unforgettable scenes, and a bit of the old Atkinson playful craftiness at the very end, a mischievous Ian McEwan-like investigation into the curious ways of fiction writers. Altogether dazzling, A God in Ruins is my pick for the best (so far) novel of 2015."
—Linda Wolfe, Fab Over Fifty
"Magnificent...Atkinson fluidly executes these chronological loop-de-loops, leaving a reader to marvel at that most banal of epiphanies--how fast life goes by."
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"
"This follow up [to Life After Life] tracks Ursula's brother, Teddy, a favorite son who flies an RAF bomber during the Second World War and remains kind, thoughtful, and patient through a life of quiet sadness...Teddy, unlike his sister, lives only one life, but Atkinson's deft handling of time, as she jumps from boyhood to old age and back, is impressive."—The New Yorker
"will leave you turning back the pages, wanting to live it again, mixing up past and present in a delightful bold manner."
—Natalie Serber, The Sunday Oregonian
"Nothing short of a masterpiece. Elegantly structured and beautifully told, it recounts the story of Teddy Todd, the brother of the protagonist of Atkinson's 2013 novel, Life After Life, in his attempt to live a 'good, quiet life' in the 20th century. Characteristically perceptive and poignant, like its predecessor it also gives a vivid and often thrilling account of life during the second world war--seen this time from the air rather than the streets of London."
—Paula Hawkins, Author of The Girl on the Train