Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog

M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo (Universidad Isabel I)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Aug 2010

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The fourth Kate Atkinson novel depicting Jackson Brodie,

Started Early, Took My Dog,

was published in 2010. After

Case Histories

(2004),

One Good Turn

(2006), and

When Will There Be Good News?

(2008),

Started Early, Took My Dog

remains, for the time being, the final installment of the cases and life of Jackson Brodie. The title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson and, true to Atkinson’s style, quotes from poems appear throughout the novel, sometimes from the unlikely lips of criminals and private detectives. Following with the literary resonances, the novel opens with the poem “For want of a nail the shoe was lost/ For want of a shoe the horse was lost…” This is repeated numerous times throughout the novel, to signal how apparently trivial and inconsequential decisions can have…

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Citation: Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. "Started Early, Took My Dog". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30310, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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