TY - BOOK AU - Atkinson,Kate TI - A god in ruins: a novel SN - 0316176532 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - Social distance KW - Fiction KW - Veteran reintegration KW - War KW - Psychological aspects KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Veterans KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Sequel to: Life after life (2013); Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-468) N2 - Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world; his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have ER -