01794cam a2200313 i 4500 1261837560 TxAuBib 130108s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012046158 9780316176484 hardback 0316176486 hardback DLC eng DLC rda DLC TxAuBib rda Atkinson, Kate. Life after life : a novel / Kate Atkinson. First United States edition. New York : Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2013. xi, 529 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best. ""-- Provided by publisher. Reincarnation Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Suspense. Great Britain History 20th century Fiction. Alternative histories (Fiction.) Humorous fiction.