Description
Book SynopsisThis timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels, play and short stories. It explores the major themes and aesthetic concerns in her fiction
. Combining close analysis and literary contextualisation, it situates her multi-faceted work in terms of a hybridisation of genres and innovative narrative strategies to evoke contemporary issues and well as the past. Chapters offer insights into each major publication (from
Behind the Scenes at the Museum to
Big Sky, the latest instalment in the Brodie sequence, through the celebrated
Life After Life and subsequent re-imaginings of the war) in relation to the key concerns of Atkinson's fiction, including self-narrativisation, history, memory and women’s lives.
Table of Contents1 Kate Atkinson's aesthetics of hybridity
2 Coming-of-age novels: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird
3 Forays into other genres: theatre and short stories
4 Defamiliarising detective fiction with Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When will There be Good News?, Started Early, Took my Dog and Big Sky
5 Re-imagining the war in Life after Life (2013), A God in Ruins (2015) and Transcription
6 Of endings
Bibliography
Index
