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Emotionally weird : a comic novel
Atkinson, Kate2015
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On a remote Scottish island, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, and begins to wonder about recent strange happenings. From the NUMBER 1 bestselling author of LIFE AFTER LIFE, SHRINES OF GAIETY and NORMAL RULES DON'T APPLYOn a peat and heather island off the west 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 father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and the Germans (more real than the Luxemburgers).But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Why is everyone writing novels? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?'Sends jolts of pleasure off the page...Kate Atkinson's funniest foray yet...it is a work of Dickensian or even Shakespearean plenty' SCOTSMAN'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Main title:
Emotionally weird : a comic novel / Kate Atkinson.
Author:
Atkinson, Kate, author
Imprint:
London : Black Swan, 2001.
Collation:
402 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2000.
ISBN:
9780552997348 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6051.T56
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
996257