A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire,memory,sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation,the people in them still find connections,words blowing in the street,love in unexpected places. Ali Smith shows how things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch,to make us love and live differently.
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781860495847Number of pages: 160Weight: 148 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 12 mm
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A sweetly memorable collection...A major talentA sweetly memorable collection...A major talentExquisitely delicate,unsentimental observations...A time for celebrationExquisitely delicate,unsentimental observations...A time for celebration
Ali Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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