A god in ruins
(2015)
By:
Atkinson, Kate
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/ATKINSON,K
0 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015
©2015
©2015
EDITION
Large print edition, First United States edition
DESCRIPTION
647 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316347693, 0316347698, 9780316347693, 0316347698 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Companion to: Life after life (2013)
Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have