What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath.
On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Clearly history (and Kate Atkinson) have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the fate of civilization.
Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny?
Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant—this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best, playing with time and history, telling a story that is breathtaking for both its audacity and its endless satisfactions.
529 page (April 2013)
Book Page at BookBrowse.
Lit Guide from LitLovers.
To find a discussion guide for this book in the NoveList Plus database, go to the Library's website, click on Novelist under "We Recommend" → "Book Services". Click on "Book Discussion Guides" in the right sidebar on NoveList's
home page. Then, either enter the title in the Search box or search for
the title alphabetically. (You will need your Salt Lake County Library
card number to access this resource outside a county library.)
Book Trailer (Hachette Book Group):
This title is available for download as an eBook and an eAudioBook. Learn more about downloadables from the library here.
Title Read-alikes: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton; The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North; Time and Time Again by Ben Elton; The Midnight Library by Matt Haig; 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson; The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Victoria Schwab; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger; Replay by Ken Grimwood; The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck; The Mothers by Brit Bennett; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo; Blackout by Connie Willis; and Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.
No comments:
Post a Comment