Transcription
by Atkinson, Kate
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 031617663X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316176637
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Little Brown and Company, 2018. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First United States Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Red Over Red. Silver Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has A Light Bump To The Lower Spine And A Faint Vertical Crease On The First Nine Pages.
Reviews
On Oct 25 2018, a reader said:
Transcription is the fourth stand-alone novel by award-winning British author, Kate Atkinson. In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong finds herself recruited into the Secret Service. Mostly it's fairly boring, typing up reports and transcribing recordings of agents meeting with British Nazi-sympathisers. But then she's given another identity and the work gets more interesting, for a while. After one exciting episode, arrests are made.
But there were some incidents about which Juliet doesn't like to think too much, and when the war ends, she's not sorry to leave it all behind. Five years later, Juliet is working for the BBC producing children's programs when a face from the past appears: the man who posed as the Gestapo contact passes her in the street. What is disconcerting is that he pretends not to know her.
On the heels of this, a somewhat threatening note is delivered, more of her former colleagues from MI5 flit in and out, and she feels sure she is being followed. Frustrated for information from official channels, Juliet decides to become the hunter rather than the prey.
Once again, Atkinson gives the reader a plot that is perfectly plausible, but filled with twists and red herrings. Her depiction of London during the war and in the immediate aftermath has an authentic feel, with the social attitudes portrayed appropriate for the era. Her protagonist is easily believable: Juliet is intelligent but still naïve, although perhaps not quite as innocent as she first seems.
Her descriptive prose is excellent, as always, and Atkinson no doubt delighted in dropping this piece of dialogue in the final pages: "Fisher clapped his hands, as if to signal the end of the entertainment and said, 'Come now, quite enough of exposition and explanation. We're not approaching the end of a novel, Miss Armstrong.'" Another Atkinson masterpiece.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047753
- Title
- Transcription
- Author
- Atkinson, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 031617663X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316176637
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2018
- Pages
- 339
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Intelligence Service - Great Britain - Fiction; Nineteen Fifties- Fiction. Spy, Spy Thriller, Suspense
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