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| Title | : | A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2) |
| Author | : | Kate Atkinson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 468 pages |
| Published | : | May 5th 2015 by Little, Brown and Company (first published May 1st 2015) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Audiobook. Literary Fiction |
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In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.Specify Books In Pursuance Of A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
| Original Title: | A God in Ruins |
| ISBN: | 0316176532 (ISBN13: 9780316176538) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Todd Family #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Costa Book Award for Novel (2015), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2015), Woman & Home Reader's Choice Award for Ultimate Page Turner (2016) |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 46216 Users | 6144 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
As you got older and time went on, you realized that the distinction between truth and fiction didnt really matter because eventually everything disappeared into the soupy, amnesiac mess of history. Personal or political, it made no difference.4★What if? Almost exactly a year ago, I enjoyed Ursulas repeating What if? story in Atkinsons Life After Life, (which I reviewed here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and I was looking forward to this about brother Teddy. But I was more thanThe second novel about a Bomber Command pilot Ive read in the space of as many months and both A God in Ruins and The Way Back to Florence have turned out to be fabulous enthralling if very different novels. The pilot is in this novel is Teddy, brother of Ursula in Life After Life. The novel spans his long life and offsets and hones it with the lives of his daughter and his two grandchildren. As ever with Atkinson there are layers of artifice in this novel on one level, her novels are generally
This is another case where I took a chance to read an author's book having not been a fan of a previous book.If you read my review of "Life After Life", you'll see, I wasn't 'ga-ga' over that book!!! I didn't 'jump' for joy when this first book came out either. PASS were my first thoughts!Overtime ... I heard and read a few things about this 'companion' novel to have me re-consider ...( enough to enter a Goodreads give-a-way). No, I didn't win...but my local thrift box had a 'like new' copy for
I received an ARC of this from the publisher. The cover of the book reads: What if the new Kate Atkinson were even better than the last? Well, A God in Ruins is in some ways similar to Life After Life. Its a companion piece, built along a similarly complex timeline and focusing on the life of Ursula Todds younger brother Teddy; his part in the War; his marriage; his reluctant navigation of the perilous, shifting waters of the twentieth century. Like all Kate Atkinsons work, it is a masterly
The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination. Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins"It's still the same old storyA fight for love and gloryA case of do or dieThe world will always welcome loversAs time goes by"-Frank Sinatra, As Time Goes ByIn the 2013 déjà -vu epic Life After Life Kate Atkinson played out "what if?" in a loop-de-loop plot that tossed narrative structure to the wind. It is a brilliant, confounding, playful and
Despite the owl, which continued to hoot its unholy lullaby, he fell almost immediately into the deep and innocent sleep of the hopeful. First the confession. I didnt really like Life After Life. Oh, I admit, it was a very clever idea, beautifully written, but for me, something was missing. It was all a bit random and, at times, (I may as well be honest) a wee bit annoying. Something of a mixed blessing, then, to be sent an ARC of the companion piece, A God In Ruins. Its a beautiful,
This has been described as a sequel to Life After Life, but as Kate Atkinson says in her Author's Note at the end, "I like to think of it as a 'companion piece' rather than a sequel". It is similarly audacious and if anything even more moving, and I devoured it in three days.This time centre stage is taken by Teddy Todd, the younger brother of Ursula, the heroine of Life After Life. The core story tells of his life as a bomber pilot in the Second World War, which is vividly described and
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