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An edition of Behind the scenes at the museum (1996)

Behind the scenes at the museum

1st U.S. ed.

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 14 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

In her profoundly moving, uniquely comic debut, Kate Atkinson introduces readers to the mind and world of Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York at the halfway point of the twentieth century, and determined to understand both the family that precedes her and the life that awaits her.

Taking her own conception as her starting point, the irrepressible Ruby narrates a story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer, to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour, to her young sister's efforts to upstage the Queen on Coronation Day. Hurtling in and out of both World Wars, economic downfalls, the onset of the permissive '60s, and up to the present day, Ruby paints a rich and vivid portrait of family heartbreak and happiness.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
332

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Subjects

Fiction, Women, Family, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, sagas, Large type books, England, fiction, Fiction, general, Families

Places

England, Yorkshire, Yorkshire (England)

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Cover of: Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
February 28, 2003, Chivers Audio Books
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
April 2001, Chivers Audio Books
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Readers Guide (Reading Group Guides)
July 2000, Picador USA
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
January 1997, Picador
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Behind the scenes at the museum.
1997, Paragon
in English - Large printed.
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Behind the scenes at the museum
1996, Black Swan
in English
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Behind the scenes at the museum
1996, Wheeler Publishing
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1996, St. Martin's Press
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6051.T56 B44 1996, PR6051.T56B44 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
332 p. ;
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL803317M
ISBN 10
0312139284
LCCN
95039787
OCLC/WorldCat
33133103
Library Thing
27002
Goodreads
1029817

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Work Description

The story of Ruby's own life is told in thirteen chapters, all written in the first person, documenting key periods in Ruby's life from 1951 to 1992. In between each chapter are (non-consecutive) flashbacks that tell the story from the point of view of one of the other (mostly female) members of Ruby's family—including her great-grandmother Alice, her grandmother Nell and her mother Bunty.

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