Emotionally Weird

Emotionally Weird - Paperback

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Emotionally Weird - Paperback

Emotionally Weird - Paperback

by Kate Atkinson
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by Kate Atkinson (Author)

Emotionally Weird is a thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum

On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear--like who her real father was. Effie tells various versions of her life at college, where in fact she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom Klingons are as real as Spaniards and Germans.

But as mother and daughter spin their tales, strange things are happening around them. Is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

In this brilliant comic narrative, Emotionally Weird, which explores the nonsensical power of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created another magical masterpiece.

Author Biography

Kate Atkinson is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Life After Life, Human Croquet, Case Histories, One Good Turn, the short-story collection, Not the End of the World, and the Jackson Brodie crime series, which was adapted into the BBC TV show Case Histories. She lives in Edinburgh, UK.

Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 06, 2001
ISBN9780312279998
Author Kate Atkinson
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's foremost novelists whose most recent novel was the critically acclaimed Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize- winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, a worldwide bestseller, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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