Normal Rules Don't Apply

Stories

De: Kate Atkinson

Narrado por: Paterson Joseph

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.

Brilliant.

Possibly my favorite now of her books. I highly recommend listening to it as the reader is wonderful.

another masterful story from the most underrated story teller of our time!

Kate Atkinson is a genius at weaving narratives together. always unexpected and always a delight. these stories comes together in a way that had me smiling throughout. genius.

Disjointed

I loved the idea but the stories took too long to connect to the point

Normal Tropes Do Apply

Atkinson's antic imagination is on full display, as is her considerable ability to intertwine the lives of vividly drawn characters. The book is amusing. Unlike most of her other books, amusement seems to be the point. The pokes at human folly concerning each other and the world itself are standard with no new discoveries or connections between ideas and perceptions to be made. These are tales, not stories. There isn't a fictional form with beginning, middle, and conclusion. There's "this happens and then that happens and, oh cool, this overlaps with that" and then it stops. Despite there being too many clueless and/or passive characters, it's a very fun ride. But at the end, I'm just thinking, "So?"

Amazing narration

Probably the best narration of the 100+ books I have listened to. Are there awards for book narration? This reader deserves the Academy Award. And anything by Kate Atkinson, it goes without saying, is brilliant and compelling!