01919cam a2200313 i 4500 948385725 TxAuBib 20230827120000.0 230228s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023009527 9780385549509 HRD 28.00 0385549504 HRD 28.00 9780593469880 tpb 0593469887 tpb TxAuBib rda Atkinson, Kate, author. Normal rules don't apply : short stories / Kate Atkinson. Normal rules do not apply. London : Doubleday, 2023. 224 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 observationson human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost 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. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds"-- Provided by publisher. 20230904. jz. Judgment Fiction. Short stories.