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  • File Size: 3001 KB
  • Print Length: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books; 1st edition (April 2, 2013)
  • Publication Date: April 2, 2013
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008TUQ60G
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5.0 out of 5 starsEverything changes and nothing remains still.
By Evelyn Getchell TOP 500 REVIEWER on February 28, 2013
Format: Hardcover Vine Customer Review of Free Product ( What's this? )
Last evening I finished Kate Atkinson's newest novel, LIFE AFTER LIFE, after two days straight of doing little else but reading it compulsively. I felt so utterly besotted by every 527 pages of it, that rather than close the book and put it on my bookshelf, I returned to the first pages and began reading the book all over again. Oh, what an extraordinary reading experience it is!

The cover blurb provides a fair plot summary of the novel and I am sure other reviewers will rehash it over and over again as well, so I will spare you a plot summary here. Rather I want to remark on what makes this novel so brilliant for me - and it is not only the deep underlying philosophical and religious themes which will surely open wide this book to many interpretations - but its beautiful characters who break all stereotypes and its structure which is a masterpiece of narrative architecture.

Yes, many themes do permeate the story of Ursula Todd - everything from Plato's "Everything changes and nothing remains still," Buddhist principles of fate and reincarnation, Nietzsche's "amor fati" (Love of Fate), to Jungian explanations of "déjà vu," "synchronicity" and "collective unconsciousness," and that's just to name a few - but what really makes this novel stand out, what really makes it so amazing is how lightly, even unassumingly, and yet so impeccably Kate Atkinson treats such sophisticated and intellectual subject matter.

LIFE AFTER LIFE is the enthralling story of Ursula Todd, born to Hugh and Sylvie Todd in their home at Fox Corner, England on a bitterly cold, snowy night in February 1910. Ursula Todd also died on that very night before she could even draw her first breath.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Art of Recycling
By Roger Brunyate TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on March 7, 2013
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This is a tricky book to review: easy to enjoy, but curiously empty. Its five hundred pages flew by like the wind; this is the kind of writing I have been reading since childhood, literary comfort food. As a British expatriate, it feels very close to home: these are my kind of people leading lives I understand, if not always in actuality then at least from books. I felt it was all rather vapid at first, but I became increasingly impressed with Atkinson's ingenuity as I read on; a veteran puzzler myself, I raise my hat to anyone who can do something this clever. But to what end? I look to a novel of this scale to do more than merely keep me amused. Yet there was never a time in the book when I felt truly touched or even much surprised. The total, I felt, was less than the sum of its many parts. Much less.

But I had better explain. Atkinson's conceit here is that her heroine, Ursula Todd, is immune from death, at least in a literary sense. If she dies at the end of one chapter, the author simply winds back the clock and starts again. So in the earliest chapter, dated February 1910, a baby is born with the cord twisted around her neck, dead. In the next, the scene is repeated, but the doctor makes it through the snow in time, and the child is saved. Some chapters later, however, a cat settles in the baby's cradle, smothering her. And so on. It is like a maze; if you come to a dead end, you retrace your steps a little and try a different route.

The plethora of short chapters and frequent restarts soon became tedious. But then the novel opened out in the interwar years and especially in some gripping scenes set in the London Blitz, as we spent more time with Ursula as a young woman and adult.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsambitious but lacking
By Cary on June 5, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
I think Atkinson's novel, Behind The Scenes at the Museum, is one of the finest novel's I've read. I also liked Human Croquet.

So I was excited to see this book had come out and bought the hard cover.

Pros:

It is clearly a book written by a novelist at the peak of her art: the writing is sure and often lush, she knows when to stop, when to move on. You certainly feel you are in the hands of a pro. THe voice is sure and often funny, with a wry intelligent humor.
She vividly brought the past to life especially the WWII era,particularly in the recurring scene of the bombed out house she either dies in or observes, depending on her life.
Some parts of the book were very powerful, again the above scenes - I have never quite felt the daily terror of London during the Blitz as I did here.
The philosophical question is interesting--both the 'what if' and the entire concept of time and the meaning of our life/lives.

Cons:
I'll address these in no order especially.
The biggest con is that though the philosophical question is interesting, it feels ultimately to be an exercise in philosophy - and a not very deep one - as opposed to a novel justifying so many pages. It's something that perhaps would feel profound if you were in a college dorm late at night drinking and chatting, and had just discovered Plato and Nietsche. "Oh wow, like maybe time isn't linear or circular!" "Wow, I mean what if you could live your life again and again? I mean, maybe our lives are both fate *and* luck, both ephemeral *and* eternal! Oh wow. Hey, pass me the wine."

A few little things: It was very annoying how many characters commented on Ursula's intelligence and brilliance. I stopped counting after a while. I also don't see the point.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsTook forever to get into

This is not a book to read a chapter and stop. This book becomes better when you read it continuously for long stretches of time. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

An interesting concept, though I wasn't expecting a world war II story. Very well written.

Published 3 days ago by Marion Haller
5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful

Wonderful. I want to re-read "A God in Ruins" to savor the joy of reading "Life After Life". Oh, How I loved Teddy in "A God... Read more

Published 4 days ago by Bonita Morgan
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Confusing at times but definitely held my interest right up to the last page.

Published 6 days ago by Barbara S Weisman
4.0 out of 5 starsEasy Thought Provoking Read

Parallel lives, deja vu, the chaos theory, the butterfly effect. They are all here in this great read by Kate Atkinson. Read more

Published 6 days ago by Annie
5.0 out of 5 starsRead Life After Life!

Life after Life is a fascinating tale of living life multiple times. The author craftily tells the story of Ursula Todd, which begins in 1910 during a snowstorm in England. Read more

Published 8 days ago by vtstromboli
3.0 out of 5 starsUnsure

Hard to get into. Enjoyable once there. Not sure about the ending.

Published 9 days ago by NYSardine
5.0 out of 5 starsWouldn't that be wonderful? ” This is the first Kate Atkinson book ...

“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe good and the bad.

I ended up really liking the book but it was a slow start. I probably didn't quite understand what was going on until about a page 150. Read more

Published 10 days ago by Marcia Wilkinson
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Interesting concept.

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