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Title	:	Emotionally Weird
Author	:	Kate Atkinson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	July 6th 2001 by Picador (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Contemporary. Mystery

Emotionally Weird

Kate Atkinson

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 6617 Users | 631 Reviews

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A hilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life After Life.

On a weather-beaten island off the 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--like who her real father was. Effie tells various versions of her life at college, where in fact she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom Klingons are as real as Spaniards and Germans.

But as mother and daughter spin their tales, strange things are happening around them. 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 power of language and meaning, Kate Atkinson has created another magical masterpiece.

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Original Title:	Emotionally Weird
ISBN:	031227999X (ISBN13: 9780312279998)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.45 From 6617 Users | 631 Reviews

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More like 3.5 stars.While I enjoyed this, I'm not at all sure what to make of it or how to review it. The first part was laugh out loud funny in places (especially if you've ever been a uni student--lets face it, we all knew someone like Bob) but I'm sure I missed the finer points Atkinson was making about post modernism and literature. In the end it all seemed to go nowhere but I'm pretty sure that was the point.I'm glad I read it though as I love Atkinson's writing and loved how she played

This is a novel most likely to be appreciated by (a) those who studied English literature at university during the 1970s (b) readers familiar with the conventions of postmodern fiction and (c) fans of Kate Atkinson's quirky style and predilection for writing about dysfunctional families. In essence, this is a novel about words and story-telling. Effie and her mother (view spoiler)[ or possibly not her mother (hide spoiler)] Nora are the two narrators. Together in a rundown house on a desolate

I found this a delightful book. It was so much fun to read! The story is one of a mother and daughter who take refuge on an island off the coast of Scotland. The daughter, Effie, was born on the island but taken away as a newborn and has never been back. Her mother, Nora, has also not been back since Effie's birth. While on the island, Effie tells about her life in college. Nora complains how many characters are in Effie's stories. And, there are tons of them. Yet, I would not want to eliminate

Emotionally Weird is the third stand-alone novel by award-winning British author, Kate Atkinson. It is the early seventies and twenty-one-year-old Euphemia Andrews (Effie) goes home to the familys summer holiday house on a remote west coast Scottish island where she shares stories with her mother Eleanora (Nora). Effie relates recent events in her life at University in Dundee; Nora, at first unforthcoming, begins to reveal facts about Effies true heritage (like her real surname), eventually

What a waste of her incredible talent! Atkinson's wry humor and ascerbic descriptions were perfect for the collection of short stories 'Not the End of the World' as well as comic-detective fiction novel 'One Good Turn'. However, 'Emotionally Weird' becomes a tangled self-conscious mess as Atkinson tries to weave those elements in with the use of the frame narrative technique and an unreliable narrator, Effie. The interlocutions between her and her mother, Nora, sometimes jar, rather than add to

Emotionally Weird fullfilled the promise of Behind the Scenes at the Museum much better than Human Croquet did. As usual, Atkinson has a unique touch, and this story, much of which revolves around a bunch of college students in a creative writing class, seems tailor-made for English major-me. I adore the excerpts from the various students' works-in-progress; delivered by a lesser writer, they would seem clichéd, but in Atkinson's hand, each one is wonderfully awful and hilarious.I bought my

I was disappointed and it was an effort to get through to the end.Although Kate Atkinson is rarely dull, this novel is meandering and comes perilously close to being self-indulgent.It's as if the writer is having so much fun recalling her own time as an English student, satirising her would-be-radical classmates and dysfunctional lecturers, that she loses sight of the fact that this territory has been thoroughly covered by other novelists. (It's like a post-modernist take on David Lodge.)