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| Original Title: | Emotionally Weird |
| ISBN: | 031227999X (ISBN13: 9780312279998) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Kate Atkinson
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.45 | 6617 Users | 631 Reviews
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A hilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life After Life.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 a brilliant comic narrative which explores the nonsensical power of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created another magical masterpiece.
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| Title | : | Emotionally Weird |
| Author | : | Kate Atkinson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | July 6th 2001 by Picador (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Contemporary. Mystery |
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Ratings: 3.45 From 6617 Users | 631 ReviewsNotice Regarding Books Emotionally Weird
Emotionally Weird is the third stand-alone novel by award-winning British author, Kate Atkinson. It is the early seventies and twenty-one-year-old Euphemia Andrews (Effie) goes home to the familys summer holiday house on a remote west coast Scottish island where she shares stories with her mother Eleanora (Nora). Effie relates recent events in her life at University in Dundee; Nora, at first unforthcoming, begins to reveal facts about Effies true heritage (like her real surname), eventuallyThe story of Effie and her mother Norah, who claims to have experienced a virgin birth. Effie takes a creative writing course at Dundee University which appears to be full of eccentrics, both faculty and students. Effie, several fellow students and a few of the professors are working on predictably rotten creative writing projects, from which Atkinson quotes frequently in an annoying array of typefaces. The class lectures consist of comically impenetrable lit-theory jargon. Since shes not doing
One of the benefits of being an established writer is the ability to publish books that would not have a ghost of a chance of advancing through a slush pile of an agent or publisher. This imagined agent/publisher might have been enticed by the first few pages, especially if they are adventurous, but the murky middle would have sent the unknown author's pages to the bin.As I was wading through that murky middle, I thought "This is what happens when an author is trying to write themselves out of
I've loved the Kate Atkinson books I've read but this is the weakest one so far. It is very funny, I laughed out loud a couple of times which is something I rarely do when reading and often had a smile on my face. However, it was so slow moving. The main story (literally a story within the story) is of the main protagonist's last year at University the majority of which has little or nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. In contrast, the ending felt rushed, too much information in too short a
This one was really 2.5 stars for me. I rarely dole out half stars and I don't usually have to deliberate over star allotment. But Emotionally Weird left me conflicted. I liked the first half, was bored for the second half but it does have a pretty good ending with clever last lines. I was disappointed that I didn't love Emotionally Weird, as I usually love Kate Atkinson's experimental novels. But you win some, you lose some.Our narrator is Effie. She's staying with her mother, Nora, on a rocky
Can you see the cover of Emotionally Weird that I read? I don't know, but if it's a peach colored cover with a sort of crappy drawing of a redheaded woman smoking and a dog then you are seeing it? Or maybe you are seeing the new cover, which is dark and fits with the covers of Kate Atkinson's later novels? Or maybe you see the British covers with the big and dopey but cute looking dog on the cover? I read the peach colored one, with the girly script. The one that screams early to mid-ought
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