Understanding Kate Atkinson
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Understanding Kate Atkinson
（Understanding contemporary British literature）
The University of South Carolina Press, c2020
- : hardback
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Summary: "Author of eleven novels, a collection of short stories, and a play, Kate Atkinson has won numerous prestigious literary awards (including the Whitbread and the Costa, twice), and yet is sometimes overlooked as a writer of popular, "middlebrow" fiction. In Understanding Kate Atkinson, Brian Diemert explores these contradictory receptions by plumbing the depths of the narrative sophistication that has landed Atkinson her enviable award-winning and bestselling status--and addressing the sexism in discussions of her first novel and major award in 1995. Diemert divides Atkinson's career into into four, mostly chronological phases: three stand-alone novels of families and their secrets; an interlude during which she published a collection of short stories and a play; five mysteries featuring Jackson Brodie as an investigator; and three recent historical novels dealing with aspects of the Second World War. These sections of the book highlight the distinct genres that Atkinson has adopted..."
Bibliography: p. [119]-125
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Understanding Kate Atkinson
- A postmodern trilogy? : Behind the scenes at the museum, Human croquet, and Emotionally weird
- Short fiction : Not the end of the world
- Detective fiction : the Jackson Brodie novels
- War and other things : Life after life, A God in ruins, and Transcription
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