It's wise, bittersweet, funny, and unlike anything else you've ever read. What Atkinson has mastered: shining a light on how full life is of choices and chance, and how lucky we are to live it." - Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly, Life After Life is a masterpiece about how even the smallest choices can sometimes change the course of history. Her domestic vignettes and wide-screen portraits of wartime resonate with startling physical and emotional clarity, and even her repetitions find fresh revelations. It's all so richly imagined and ingeniously executed that the mystery feels right. Watching that pursuit is frequently heartbreaking and entirely thrilling." - Katie Arnold-Ratliff, Time, "Audacious, the kind of sweeping virtuoso epic that actually earns overheated book-jacket phrases like 'tour de force!'.Atkinson is a fantastic storyteller. Readers already in love with Atkinson's novels, and equally besotted with Jackson Brodie, will be just as pleased with the life - the lives - of Ursula Todd., "Atkinson has a knack for puzzle-making.creating a series of narrative fragments that cohere into a breathtaking whole.By the final chapters, it's clear that Ursula is gaining on something much bigger than any of her lives: a true calling. Originality is the jumping-off point for this especially unique novel, and readers looking for something fresh should take a chance. Some of Ursula's narratives are so compelling, so convincing, that it is hard to imagine her ending up any other way."- Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, Delightfully precocious and darkly moody. can be playful and profound, an enjoyable storyteller as well as an artful writer.She gives us a complete picture of an upper-class British family as it moves into the modern era, and in such a way that we are left sifting through the many turns a life can take and contemplating the consequences thereof., "Inventive.This ingenious narrative conceit not only illustrates how seemingly small decisions can affect our lives, it also allows us as readers to inhabit a novelist's creative process.Atkinson has crafted a narrative that pushes us to think about our own choices.
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