Emotionally Weird: A Novel
 

Emotionally Weird: A Novel

by Kate Atkinson

Readers who survive the first 20 pages of this dense and playful novel, with its three different openings, constant jokes, and crowded cast of characters, will find themselves rewarded with a leisurely postmodern romp through the student ferment and bodily indulgences of the early 1970s. Although the publisher has called Emotionally Weird a comic novel, it is essentially unclassifiable, ... (read more)

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GRACE H
  • Rated 4 stars

This is a really funny take on going to college in the early '70s -- it made me laugh out loud a few times. Like Human Croquet, there is an element of trying to solve a puzzle.

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capira
  • Rated 2 stars

I had 2 reasons for reading this - firstly I loved "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" and wanted more, secondly, when I discovered that this book was set in my old university and I could re-visit the streets and pubs I had to have it. However it was a little hard at first following the action and keeping tabs on the characters, but I made it through.

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  • Rated 3 stars
 

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