Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named England's Whitbread Book of the Year in 1996. Since then, she has written eleven more ground-breaking, bestselling books. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"...more subtly postmodern, shifting between past, present, and
future in ways both subversive and perfectly organic."--Boris
Kachka, New York Magazine
"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 brilliant follow-up."--Katy Waldman, Slate
"A novel for people who love novels."--Tom Beer, Newsday
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 writes the way LeBron dunks or Stephen Hawking theorizes;
she can't help but be brilliant."
--Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"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
"Dazzling."--People
"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
"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
"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"
"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
"Ms. Atkinson's thrumming imagination runs on premium prose, a
perfect vehicle for conveying characters to new futures."--Susan
Balée, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"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
"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
"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
"Transcendent."--Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
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