![]() ![]() Atkinson’s witty, functionally elegant style in Transcription isn’t terribly distinctive, but it isn’t trying to be the writing is always in service to the story. ![]() In the best-selling writer’s 10th novel, Transcription, an unlikely spy, Juliet Armstrong, receives an assignment that. Compared to a Cusk or a Smith (Ali or Zadie), Atkinson might appear to be a sort of literary matron, an aesthetic conservative unwilling or unable to adapt to the evolution of her art but hers is a profoundly feminist project. K ate Atkinson pays close attention to historyand how it repeats itself. ISBN-13: 9780316176637 Summary A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Far from interfering with the plot of Transcription, this meditation on identity kindles it. Find a Recipe Transcription (Atkinson) Transcription Kate Atkinson, 2018 Little, Brown and Company 352 pp. before you know it Transcription has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity. ![]() In her best work-a category in which her latest, Transcription (Little, Brown), certainly belongs-she maneuvers the tropes of the murder-mystery genre, of historical fiction, and of privileged white Britishness into a kind of critical salvage of women’s work, women’s lives, that’s as heterodox, in its way, as Cusk’s. Atkinson has predicated her enormously successful career upon giving readers intelligent and artful iterations of what they already know they like. The futuristic surveillance equipment employed by M.I.5 is, by twenty-first-century standards, inexact and clunky, and. Within a deceptively familiar form, Transcription treats the lives and labor of women with fresh complexity. This is true of Transcription most immediately on the level of technology. ![]()
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