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Sto caricando le informazioni... Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel (2010)
Informazioni sull'operaStarted Early, Took My Dog di Kate Atkinson (2010)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3-1/2 stars. I liked how she uses humour throughout what is at bottom a crime mystery, though there's a lot of other stuff going on. I wish there were chapters; I love short chapters but this book is full of thought breaks, and only 5 or so real section breaks. Very convoluted story with really too many different pov's to keep straight in my little brain. I will look for another of Atkinson's books though. ( ) I've loved [a:Kate Atkinson|10015|Kate Atkinson|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1363801830p2/10015.jpg]'s Jackson Brodie series. It's crime fiction, sort of. More than that, it's an exploration of what it is to be honourable, to survive terrible loss, to be a man. Brodie is ex-army, ex-police, ex-husband. As this is the fourth and final book in the series I don't want to post any spoilers relating to previous books. Suffice to say, he's suffered much more than his fair share of trauma. In this installment, he's on the trail of a client's biological parents as well as a woman who wronged him. Alternating the narrative are two female voices, a retired policewoman and an aging actress. Their stories converge in surprising ways. Everyone is trying to find and/or rescue lost children, literal and long-gone. I loved these books and I'm looking forward to reading Atkinson's other work. She may be my new favourite author. An entertaining, if complicated read. There are many threads in this book, all of which have to come together by the end. I found it difficult to sort out the Rays from the Barrys and kept on forgetting who was which. Nevertheless, this is quite a satisfying plot, though maybe not up to Kate Atkinson's usual standard. These books all start like a shattered glass: tiny fragments with, seemingly, no connection. As the book proceeds, the shards all start to come together and, by the end, it all makes sense. The one thing that I will say, is that these books are getting bleaker: the first one was rather amusing - I fear the next; Jackson may well be extinct by the end. I shall be reading it, none the less!
“Started Early, Took My Dog” — with a wonderful title from Emily Dickinson, summoning a poem that is as artfully enshrouded as this novel — is... jampacked with echoes, parallels, doppelgängers, sneaky omissions and authorial attempts to mislead. For Ms. Atkinson this is business as usual and often a source of final-act revelatory glee. But it doesn’t coalesce as neatly as this series’s earlier installments have. Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes at the Museum and has, like Michael Dibdin and Ian Rankin before, reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction. She's just as serious and formally interesting as ever, only her novels featuring the ex-policeman Jackson Brodie involve unravelling a couple of murders. With their startling first chapters, appealing cast of familiar characters and meticulous observation of contemporary reality they read like Elizabeth George crossed with Elizabeth Bowen. The fourth, Started Early, Took My Dog is about child abduction, and people who fall through the cracks of modern Britain unless somebody bothers to help. The narrative switches between the 1970s and today with dizzying, at times perplexing, skill. Tracy, its hefty heroine is, like Brodie, ex-police. As a young copper she found a starving, half-frozen child in a flat with his murdered mother. Tracy persists in asking questions, and the child disappears. Atkinson's detective novels capture the strangeness of modern times, and our supposedly atomised lives, with spiky wit, emotional intelligence and consummate cleverness. All her novels are about the choices that we make and the things we leave behind; about parenthood and the anguish that vulnerability brings. Above all, they scrutinise an England too few literary novelists seem to notice, or care about. So much of the narrative is retrospective or interior that there's not much urgency to unfolding events, however highly coloured. And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. But we follow their digressive, meandering voices avidly as they circle around their own particular loves and losses, all knitted together with Atkinson's extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control. She's an old hand at paradox now: "All roads lead home," says Julia. "All roads lead away from home," Jackson replies. Appartiene alle SerieJackson Brodie (4) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective ?? a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other ?? or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue: that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpun Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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