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The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don''t Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.
With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.
''What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinson''s true subject: the nature of storytelling itself'' Times Literary Supplement ''Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages'' Red ''Sublime'' Good Housekeeping ''Dazzling'' Reader''s Digest ____________ Praise for Kate Atkinson:
''Inexhaustibly ingenious'' HILARY MANTEL ''Simply one of the best writers working today, anywhere in the world'' GILLIAN FLYNN ''A brilliant and profoundly original writer'' RACHEL CUSK ''Atkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skill'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''One of the country''s most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors.'' SCOTSMAN -
L'homme est un dieu en ruine
Kate Atkinson
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche
- 13 Février 2019
- 9782253071334
Teddy a vingt ans lorsqu'il s'enrôle en 1940 comme pilote de bombardier dans la Royal Air Force. Vite promu commandant, il va connaître avec son équipage quatre années d'horreur et d'héroïsme où chaque mission risque d'être la dernière. Alors qu'il s'était résigné à mourir au combat, il va pourtant vivre, obsédé par l'idée de ne plus faire de mal à personne.
Passant avec virtuosité du futur au passé, du rire aux larmes, Kate Atkinson signe un roman brillant et vertigineux. Tout comme Une vie après l'autre, premier volet de son diptyque consacré à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, L'homme est un dieu en ruine a été numéro un des ventes des deux côtés de l'Atlantique et a remporté le Costa Novel Award.Une réussite éclatante. On quitte Teddy à regret, ému au possible et ébloui par la force d'une romancière au sommet de son art. Alexandre Fillon, L'Express.Kate Atkinson joue avec le temps, jusqu'à en remettre en question la réalité. Emmanuelle Giuliani, La Croix. Traduit de l'anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Sophie Aslanides.
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1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie''s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho''s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.
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The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize - a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the ''sidekick'' is DC Reggie Chase.The crumbling house - Burton Makepeace and its chatelaine the Dowager Lady Milton - suffered the loss of their last remaining painting of any value, a Turner, some years ago. The housekeeper, Sophie, who disappeared the same night, is suspected of stealing it.Jackson, a reluctant hostage to the snowstorm, has been investigating the theft of another painting: The Woman with a Weasel, a portrait, taken from the house of an elderly widow, on the morning she died. The suspect this time is the widow''s carer, Melanie. Is this a coincidence or is there a connection? And what secrets does the Woman with a Weasel hold? The puzzle is Jackson''s to solve.And let''s not forget that a convicted murderer is on the run on the moors around Burton Makepeace.All the while, in a bid to make money, Burton Makepeace is determined to keep hosting a shambolic Murder Mystery that acts as a backdrop while the real drama is being played out in the house.A brilliantly plotted, supremely entertaining, and utterly compulsive tour de force from a great writer at the height of her powers.
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Hantée par la disparition de sa mère Eliza, négligée par un père revenu du bout du monde avec une nouvelle épouse, Isobel Fairfax est douée (ou affligée ?) d'une faculté exceptionnelle : circuler à son gré dans le temps, pour explorer une tranche du passé ou entrouvrir une porte sur l'avenir.
Ainsi va-t-elle remonter à l'époque où ses ancêtres, contemporains de Shakespeare, étaient les seigneurs du pays environnant, puis reparcourir la longue décadence qui mène à son épicier de père. Et aux multiples secrets, dérisoires ou tragiques, qui sont le lot de toutes les familles... Isobel n'aurait-elle pas préféré ignorer ce qu'il lui sera donné de découvrir ?
Après Dans les coulisses du musée, lauréat du prix Whitbread en Grande-Bretagne, sacré par le magazine Lire " Meilleur roman de l'année 1996 ", Kate Atkinson nous entraîne une fois encore dans un irrésistible galop romanesque, à la fois saga familiale et enquête policière.
Drôle, malin, émouvant, doté d'une sorte d'ébriété en constante effervescence, ce livre ensorcelé illustre bien que Kate Atkinson est la charmante diablesse du roman britannique d'aujourd'hui.
Jacques de Decker, Le Soir Miss Atkinson se montre d'une intelligence diabolique. Elle est émeut et amuse... Elle est d'une prodigalité phénoménale dans ses histoires, ses personnages, ses fantasmagories.
Frédéric Vitoux, Le Nouvel Observateur
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Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force' Daily Mail WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD: the acclaimed number one bestselling novel.
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
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An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer The magnificent new novel by bestselling award-winning Kate Atkinson In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.
Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers.
'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph
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Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion' Sunday Times The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.
Witnesses to Tracy's outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. -
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, ''LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE'' ( The Times) '' Big Sky is laced with Atkinson''s sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny'' ( Observer ) Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. It''s a picturesque setting, but there''s something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson''s current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back into the path of someone from his past. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking new literary crime novel, both sharply funny and achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today.
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