Not the End of the World

What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay? Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. From Charlene and Trudi, obsessively making lists while bombs explode softly in the streets outside, to gormless Eddie, maniacal cataloguer of fish, and Meredith Zane who may just have discovered the secret to eternal life, each of these stories shows that when the worlds of material existence and imagination collide, anything is possible.

ISBN 0552771058   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780552771054 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd   Weight (grammes) 240 Imprint Black Swan   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 01 Jul 2003   Width (mm) 127 Reissue date 22 Jul 2010   Spine width (mm) 20 Library of Congress PR6051.T56   Academic level General DEWEY 823.914   Alternative ISBN 9780754094715 DEWEY edition DC21

" Moving and funny and crammed with incidental wisdom." -- "Sunday Times"

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