Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.
Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all.
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I listened to the audiobook and hated the audiobook version!!!
I liked the first story the rest was a blur that I couldn't even pay attention to. It didn't make sense to me, partly because the audiobook made it like one run-on story when it's actually multiple stories that are just loosely connected. So it would run into the next story without telling me. I'm on a new story and I would be confused. Like okay. Why is there a talking animal? What's happening, who are these people??? I could not keep the characters straight and I I don't know why they were talking animals. Lol. Terrible. I I cannot believe I even finished it and then I still was like okay. What happened? Lol. I feel like maybe if you read it it would be more enjoyable.
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