Emotionally Weird

Kate Atkinson

ISBN 10: 038540882X / ISBN 13: 9780385408820

Published by Doubleday, 2000

About this Item

Clean yellow boards, with gilt titles to spine and an unclipped DW. A tight, bright and clean copy with no inscriptions and no foxing. 343pp. (16.5x24cm). Please contact us for any more information.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotionally Weird
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038540882X
• ISBN 13: 9780385408820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1 kilogram
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The latest magical mystery tour de force from one of Britain’s most original novelists – winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

On 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, such as the identity of her real father – variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, the land of cakes and William Wallace, 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. But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

In a brilliant comic narrative which explores the nonsensical nature of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created another masterpiece.


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About the Author

Kate Atkinson has won several prizes for her short stories. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Award and was then chosen as the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. Her critically acclaimed second novel was Human Croquet.


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