![]() ![]() ![]() On an impulse, Tracy Waterhouse buys little Courtney for a wad of cash from a woman she assumes to be her mother, after witnessing her behaving abusively toward the child. Another reviewer called Kate Atkinson “possibly the only author writing crime fiction that is also literary fiction alive today.” What are the elements that turn Started Early, Took My Dog into crime fiction, and what are its literary features? And do you agree with the way fiction is commonly classified into these separate genres by the critics, and also in libraries and bookshops?Ħ. What qualities make the former police detective so attractive to readers? And would you want to see him appear in another novel after this?ĥ. A reviewer called this a “state of the nation novel - far sharper and more observant and satirically understanding than anything else out there at the moment.” Do you agree, and if so, what did the novel reveal for you about Britain today?Ĥ. Are there any other true crime cases that come to mind that resonate with the stories in this book?ģ. Another epigraph quotes Peter Sutcliffe, suggesting that this novel was partly inspired by the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper. ![]() “For want of a nail the shoe was lost / For want of a shoe the horse was lost.” How do you think this traditional proverb, quoted by Kate Atkinson before the start of the novel, relates to what happens in Started Early, Took My Dog?Ģ. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |